Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchConferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Nine On Prayer, Part IV
Season 3 Episode 38
The group continued to discuss Abba Isaac's breathtaking exposition of the "Our Father"; considering the third, fourth and fifth petitions. The beaut…
11 years, 6 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Nine On Prayer, Part III
Season 3 Episode 1
Germanus, Cassian's traveling companion, begins this section by talking about the mind's inconstancy and seeming inability to hold on to holy thought…
11 years, 6 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Nine On Prayer, Part II
Season 3 Episode 36
Picking up with Cassian's Conference 9 on Prayer, we continue to focus on the necessary dispositions for unceasing and pure prayer. We must not let …
11 years, 6 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Nine On Prayer, Part I
Season 3 Episode 35
Prayer is the subject of conferences 9 and 10 and its importance is underlined at the very beginning of the 9th: "The end of every monk and the perfe…
11 years, 7 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eight on Principalities Part III & Conference Nine On Prayer
Season 3 Episode 34
After a brief hiatus due to illness, the group picked up with the final few pages of Conference Eight which was Abba Serenus' response to Germanus' q…
11 years, 8 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eight on Principalities Part II
Season 3 Episode 33
The group picked up with Abba Serenus' exposition of the nature and characteristics of demons - the fact that they occupy the airy void between heave…
11 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Eight on Principalities Part I
Season 3 Episode 32
The group took up Cassian’s eighth conference – listening once again to the wise counsel of Abba Serenus. This conference treats of demons in themse…
11 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seven on the Changeableness of the Soul and on Evil Spirits Part IV
Season 3 Episode 31
The group considered the closing sections of Conference Seven with Abba Serenus. The Divine Physician often will allow demons to afflict souls for t…
11 years, 9 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seven on the Changeableness of the Soul and on Evil Spirits Part III
Season 3 Episode 30
The elder Serenus clarifies for Cassian and Germanus that the evil spirits, although capable of working in a kind of temporary accord, do not act in …
11 years, 10 months ago
Conferences of St. John Cassian - Conference Seven on the Changeableness of the Soul and on Evil Spirits Part II
Season 3 Episode 29
Germanus and Cassian continue to engage the elder Serenus about the action of evil spirits. Serenus with great patience and eloquence shows them th…
11 years, 10 months ago