SERINUS
Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Alphabetical Collection — translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG
1. They said of Abba Serinus that he used to work hard and always ate two small loaves. Abba Job, his companion and himself
a great ascetic, went to see him and said, 'I am careful about what I do in the cell, but when I come out I do as the brothers do.' Abba Serinus said to him, 'There is no great virtue in keeping to your regime in your cell, but there is if you keep it when you come out of your cell.'
2. Abba Serinus said, 'I have spent my time in harvesting, sewing and weaving, and in all these employments if the hand of God had not sustained me, I should not have been fed.'
Translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG. Edition opa.patristics.desert-fathers.sayings-alphabetical-collection.en.