Saint John Cassian on PrayerFor more than sixteen centuries, John Cassian has been honoured by the universal Church as one of the greatest of early monastic writers. The breadth of his experience of eremitical life in the Egyptian desert, his distinction as a theologian and churchman, and especially his veneration for some of the great Desert Fathers are conveyed in the Institutes and Conferences, which continue to be prized as a spiritual resource by Christians in East and

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the Christian teaching of a Trinity of Persons in a unity of essence is the only one which can constitute the basis of a perfect spirituality for man

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and writings from Church Fathers will nourish the souls of reflective seekers during the forty-day period of Great Lent

he leads us gently yet firmly along the narrow way to which we are called

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