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Back to SearchConferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seventeen on Promises and Lying II
Season 3 Episode 65
Cassian and Germanus find themselves struggling, as it were, with a seemingly no win situation. No matter what decision they make they will experien…
10 years, 8 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seventeen on Promises and Lying
Season 3 Episode 64
This is probably the most challenging Conference to read, to read patiently, and with a sense of generosity when interpreting its teachings. Cassian …
10 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Sixteen on Friendship Part III Conclusion
Season 3 Episode 63
Cassian and Germanus conclude there discussion with Abba Joseph by discussing the various kinds of feigned patience that mask the anger and bitternes…
10 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Sixteen on Friendship Part II
Season 3 Episode 62
Cassian continues to "take us where we do not want to go" in this Conference on Friendship. Divine Love and purity of heart must become the lens thr…
10 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Sixteen on Friendship
Season 3 Episode 61
You could feel the tension rise in the room as we began to make our way through Cassian's Conference on Friendship. It was startling, jarring and ch…
10 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Fifteen on Divine Gifts
Season 3 Episode 60
Abba Nesteros's second conference, which deals with the charism of healing, is the shortest of all twenty-four conferences. Nesteros begins by distin…
10 years, 10 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Fourteen On Spiritual Knowledge Part III
Season 3 Episode 59
Once worldly cares have been stilled and virtue acquired, Abba Nesteros tells Cassian and Germanus that an assiduous program of reading the Bible mus…
10 years, 10 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Fourteen On Spiritual Knowledge Part II
Season 3 Episode 58
We labored through a few pages of the conference where Abba Nesteros lays out the types of Spiritual Knowledge that exist - tropology, allegory and a…
10 years, 10 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Fourteen On Spiritual Knowledge Part I
Season 3 Episode 57
Knowledge and the Desire for God
Cassian and Germanus' discussion with elder Nesteros on Spiritual Knowledge to all appearances is one of the most an…
10 years, 11 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Thirteen On God’s Protection, Part IV
Season 3 Episode 56
Dance of Love: Synergy of Grace and Free Will
We come to the conclusion of Cassian's beautiful conference on the interplay of grace and free will and…
10 years, 11 months ago