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John Cassian: Conferences is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on his early experience as a monk in Bethlehem and Egypt, John Cassian (c. 365–c. 435) journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence. Conferences is his masterpiece, a study of the Egyptian ideal of the monk.

draw all our efforts toward the one point and will serve as a warning to us if our minds waver even a little from the proposed route. “Take the example of those who are skilled in archery and who wish to demonstrate their prowess before some king of this world. They strive to hurl their darts or their arrows against tiny shields on which there are painted the rewards of achievement. They know well that they can attain the desired reward only if they come straight on target. It is there for them
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