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 24
1We Open Our Thoughts to Abbot Abraham2The Old Man Exposes Our Mistakes3The Kind of Place Anchorites Should Seek4The Kind of Work Solitaries Should Choose5Restlessness of Body Makes Anxiety Worse6How a Monk Should Guard His Thoughts7A Question About Living Near Our Families8Not Everything Suits Everyone9The Self-Denial of Abbot Apollos10May a Monk Be Supported by His Family?11What Saint Antony Said on This Point12The Value of Work and the Harm of Idleness13The Barber Who Chased Bigger Pay14How Did This Deception Take Hold of Us?15The Three Parts of the Soul16Your Reasoning Part Is Wounded17The Weakest Part Gives Way First18Would We Find More Silence at Home?19The Devil’s Promise of a Remoter Desert20The Good of a Break When Brothers Visit21John and the Hunter’s Bow22How Can Christ’s Yoke Be Easy?23Why Christ’s Yoke Is Easy24Why the Yoke Feels Heavy to Us25What Temptation Gains Us26The Hundredfold Promised in This Life