The first meeting: with Father Moses - purity of heart is the path to the kingdom
I now fulfil, as far as my weakness allows, the promise I made to Blessed Pope[i] Castor in the preface to those volumes which […]
Book Ten: In the Spirit of Boredom or Boredom
Resist boredom by working, not by running away! Saint John Cassian gives us a practical presentation on the problem of “boredom” that afflicts the monk in the afternoon.
Monastic perfection in the thought of Saint John Cassian
The foundations of monastic systems laid down by Saint John Cassian are considered among the most complete systems of his day[23]. We have already talked about it
Chapter Twenty-Seven - Our Current Homeland
The Word of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, entered the heart of the world, sanctified it, and made it live in a new era or a new age, the age of the Kingdom of God. The Lord Himself confirmed that the Kingdom of God does not pertain to the future alone, but that the believing Christian lives in it from now on. But the present time is different from the comprehensive Kingdom of God, and is only a picture or introduction to it. The Kingdom will shine in its full glory in the last times, at the coming of the Lord.