John Cassian brought the teaching of the Egyptian monks to the West: the twelve books of the Institutes on the monk's life and the eight principal faults, the twenty-four Conferences with the Abbots of Egypt, and his seven books On the Incarnation against Nestorius. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Conferences, Conference 16
1What Abbot Joseph First Asked Us2Friendships That Do Not Last3The Friendship Nothing Can Break4Doing What Is Useful Against a Brother’s Wish5Lasting Friendship Belongs to the Perfect6How Unity Is Kept Unbroken7Nothing Above Love, Nothing Below Anger8How Quarrels Arise Among Spiritual People9Removing Even Spiritual Causes of Discord10The Surest Test of Truth11The Danger of Trusting Our Own Judgment12Why the Lesser Should Not Be Despised in Discussion13Love Not Only Belongs to God but Is God14The Different Degrees of Love15Hiding a Grievance Only Makes It Worse16When a Brother Has Something Against Us17Patient with Outsiders but Not with Brothers18The Silence That Provokes19Fasting Out of Rage20Turning the Other Cheek in Pretense21How Can Obeying Christ Fall Short of Perfection?22Christ Looks at the Will as Well as the Deed23The Strong Man Yields to Another’s Will24The Weak Wound Others and Cannot Bear Wrongs25Must the Strong Always Bear the Weak?26When the Weak Will Not Be Borne With27How to Hold Back Anger28Friendships Begun by a Sworn Pact Do Not Last