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Back to SearchConferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eighteen On the Kinds of Monks Part III
Season 3 Episode 69
Cassian's discussion with Abba Piamun about the various kinds of monks stands more as a backdrop to a greater reflection on the necessary virtues of …
10 years, 7 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eighteen On the Kinds of Monks Part II
Season 3 Episode 68
We continue to listen with Cassian and Germanus to Abba Piamun discuss the kind of monks - Cenobites, Anchorites, Sarbaites and a fourth category of …
10 years, 7 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eighteen Part I on the Kinds of Monks
Season 3 Episode 67
Cassian and Germanus move deeper into the Egyptian desert in search of a larger and more perfect group of holy men. The meet Abba Piamun, the elder …
10 years, 8 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seventeen on Promises and Lying III
Season 3 Episode 66
We come to the conclusion of Germanus' and Cassian's discussion with Abba Joseph on Making Promises and the rare dispensation that would allow one t…
10 years, 8 months ago
Conferences 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago