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 Institutes, Book 7
1Greed, a Fault from Outside Our Nature2How Dangerous Greed Is3What Our Natural Impulses Are For4Our Natural Faults Do Not Wrong the Creator5Faults We Bring on Ourselves6How Hard Greed Is to Drive Out7Where Greed Begins and What It Breeds8How Greed Blocks Every Virtue9Why a Monk with Money Cannot Stay10The Deserter’s Endless Toil11Women Brought In to Guard the Money12A Lukewarm Monk Caught by Greed13Why the Elders Lay These Sins Bare14The Three Forms of Greed15Renouncing Badly and Not Renouncing at All16The Text Behind Which the Hoarders Shelter17How the Apostles and the First Church Gave Up Everything18Following the Apostles’ Example19A Saying of Saint Basil Against Syncletius20The Shame of Being Beaten by Greed21How Greed Can Be Conquered22Greed Without Money23The Example of Judas24Greed Is Overcome Only by Giving Up Everything25The Deaths of Ananias, Sapphira and Judas26Greed, a Leprosy of the Soul27Not Taking Back What We Have Given Up28Victory over Greed Means Keeping Nothing29How a Monk Keeps His Poverty30Remedies for Greed31Staying in the Monastery