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Abba Isaac said: “Once I was sitting with Abba Poemen,
and I saw that he was in an ecstasy; and since I used to speak very
openly with him, I made a prostration before him and asked him, ‘Tell
me, where were you?’ And he did not want to tell me. But when I pressed
him, he replied: ‘My thoughts were with St. Mary the Mother of God, as
she stood and wept at the Cross of the Savior; and I wish that I could
always weep as much as she wept then.’”
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers