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Saint John Cassian was a monk and theologian. Born in the region of Scythia Minor (today's Romania and Bulgaria). As a member of wealthy family he received a good classical education (he was bilingual, knew Latin and Greek). Died in Marseille in 435. Celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. Cassian is noted for bringing the ideas and practices of Egyptian monasticism to the early medieval West. Influenced St. Benedict, who included many of Cassian's principles into his monastic rule. ...more

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	John Cassian: Conferences by John Cassian, Owen Chadwick (Introduction), Colm Luibheid (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction by John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Cassian: The Institutes by John Cassian, Boniface Ramsey (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 426 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duhovni boj s osam glavnih strasti by John Cassian, Ivan Kasijan, Brigita Peček (editor) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 700 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conferences of Desert Fathers 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius by John Cassian, Jerome Bertram (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 430 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint John Cassian on Prayer by John Cassian, Augustine M. Casiday (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Coenobia and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monastic Institutes : On the Training of a Monk and The Eight Deadly Sins by John Cassian, Jerome Bertram (Translator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings of St. John Cassian the Roman 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”
― John Cassian

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“Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of the soul. For the soul also has its foods that are harmful. Slander is its food and indeed one that is very dear to it. A burst of anger also supplies it with miserable food for an hour and destroys it as well with its deadly savor. Envy is food of the mind, corrupting it with its poisonous juices and never ceasing to make it wretched and miserable at the prosperity and success of another. Vanity is its food which gratifies the mind with a delicious meal for a time but afterward strips it clear and bare of all virtue. Then vanity dismisses it barren and void of all spiritual fruit. All lust and shift wanderings of heart are a sort of food for the soul, nourishing it on harmful meats but leaving it afterwards without a share of its heavenly bread and really solid food. If then, with all the powers we have, we abstain from these in a most holy fast our observance of the bodily fast will be both useful and profitable.”
― John Cassian, Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

tags: anger, envy, fasting, food, purity, soul, vanity

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“It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.”
― John Cassian, Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

tags: christianity, enemy, foe, internal-warfare, prayer

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