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  • On the Devil - Conferences With a Desert Father
    John Cassian
    The present book is an interview with Abba Serenus, a Desert Father, about the Devil, the nature this enemy and how he can attack our spirits and influence our thoughts. The Apothegmata, or The Sayings of the Desert Father and Mothers, were foundational in the development of monastic spirituality in the Church. The Desert Fathers and Mothers were the first hermits, monks, and n...
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  • The Institutes
    John Cassian
    After travelling to Egypt from Rome during the fourth century, known as the golden age of Christian Monasticism in the east, St John Cassian wrote two books for the benefit of those who were curious of the monastic life. This book is one of those two. The Institutes first describes the dress of the monks and their prayer life before writing about the ’eight vices’ which any mon...
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  • The Conferences
    John Cassian
    The Conferences of St John Cassian is a classic of Christian spiritual wisdom for monasticism and is of great benefit for the everyday lay reader.St John lived in the fourth century and became a monk in Syria. He heard much about the monks and monasteries in Egypt and desired to travel there and talk with the elder monks. He eventually travelled to Egypt with his fellow monk Ge...
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  • On the Incarnation of Christ
    John Cassian / Jerome Bertram
    St John Cassian’s little treatise on the Incarnation is of a very different character his better-known works of spirituality, the Institutes and the Collations. Cassian wrote the De Incarnatione in 429, at the request of Leo, Archdeacon of Rome, as part of the build-up to the condemnation of Nestorius at the Synod of Rome in 430 and the general Council of Ephesus in 431. Leo wa...
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  • The Collations
    John Cassian / Jerome Bertram
    The Twenty-Four Conferences or Collations of St John Cassian, written in the early fifth century, were to have a tremendous impact in the West on the spirituality of monastics and other Religious. A classic of spirituality, they were compulsory reading for St Benedict’s monks, the favourite spiritual reading of St Dominic in the late twelfth century and were treasured by St Phi...
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