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 19
1Abbot Paul’s Monastery and a Patient Brother2Abbot John’s Humility, and Our Question3Why Abbot John Left the Desert4Abbot John’s Life as an Anchorite5The Advantages of the Desert6The Advantages of the Coenobium7Germanus Asks the Aim of Each Life8The Aim of the Coenobite and of the Hermit9True and Complete Perfection10Those Who Go to the Desert Unready11How Can Those Who Left Too Soon Be Cured?12How a Hermit Can Find Out His Faults13How Can Those Who Went Out Uncured Be Healed?14The Cure for Anger and Impatience15Can Lust Be Treated Like Anger?16How Chastity Is Tested