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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Cassian
		It was probably in Rome that Cassian was elevated to the priesthood, for it is certain that on his arrival in the Eternal City he was still a deacon.
		The teaching of Cassian on this point was a reaction against what he regarded as the exaggerations of St. Augustine in his treatise "De correptione et gratia" as to the irresistible power of grace and predestination.
		Cassian saw in the doctrine of St. Augustine an element of fatalism, and while endeavouring to find a via media between the opinions of the great bishop of Hippo and Pelagius, he put forth views which were only less erroneous than those of the heresiarch himself.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03404a.htm (1364 words)

	Cassian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cassian, or Saint Cassian of Imola was a Christian saint of the 4th century.
		This saint is different from St. John Cassian, the Abbot of St. Victor Abbey in Marseille, who died in 433.
		Cassian is the patron saint of Mexico City, and of parish clerks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassian (257 words)

	John Cassian (c. 365 - c. 433)
		John Levko, "The Relationship of Prayer to Discretion and Spiritual Direction for John Cassian," Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 40.3 (1996): 155-171.
		John J. Levko, "Temptation and Its Relationship to Prayer for John Cassian," Diakonia 29.2 (1996): 85-94.
		John Levko, "The Spiritual Journey from Lukewarmness to Steadfastness for John Cassian," Diakonia 31.1 (1998): 5-13.
	www.earlychurch.org.uk /cassian.php (787 words)

	John Main's Christian Meditation
		John Main spoke out of the tradition of Cassian in which the emphasis is on the absolute simplicity of ceaselessly revolving the prayer formula in one’s heart as a way of ridding oneself of all kinds of other thoughts and keeping one’s mind fixed on the continual recollection of God.
		John maintains that leaving discursive meditation before this knowledge and love is established in their souls can be as detrimental as continuing discursive meditation when God clearly is leading them into contemplation.
		John Main obtained permission from his abbot late in 1974 to establish a small lay community in a former novitiate house at Ealing Abbey in England, primarily devoted to the practice of meditation.
	www.innerexplorations.com /chmystext/john.htm (5599 words)

	Saints of July 23
		Saint John Chrysostom ordained Germanus a priest and Cassian a deacon.
		In them Cassian tells of the discussions or conferences that he had with the monks; however, the doctrine that he expressed in them was often unorthodox, and in the opinion of Saint Augustine gave too much importance to human free will in the virtuous act and not enough to divine grace.
		Cassian's answer to the theological bickering and to the violent attacks against his works was one of silence, for he desired only to live in peace and watch over the pious souls who had come to his monasteries to seek the way of perfection.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0723.htm (3452 words)

	Ex Oriente Lux: John Cassian on the Monastic Life
		Cassian’s purpose, in the establishment of his two monasteries and his composition of his two monastic works, was to bring about an Eastern monasticism outside of the East.
		For Cassian, the monastic life of Egypt was a tool; and however great a tool may be, it is not the tool itself which is ultimately to be set on high, but the end for which it designed to be an aid.
		If Cassian served as a ‘bridge’ between East and West, it is only because he knew that the Light of Christ transcends the physical location of both, and the traditions used to approach it in Egypt could have the same effect anywhere in creation.
	www.monachos.net /monasticism/cassian_east_west.shtml (1492 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		360, John Cassian was ordained a deacon in Constantinople and became a monk in Bethlehem.
		Cassian's Institutes served as their rule, and his On the Incarnation is a treatise against Nestorianism.
		In the Middle Ages, Cassian's body was housed in a marble tomb, and Pope Urban V put Cassian's head in a silver casket.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/johncas.html (242 words)

	John Cassian - OrthodoxWiki
		Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monastic saint known for his writings on the monastic life and for correctives of the anti-Pelagian writings of St. Augustine of Hippo.
		John was born in the Danube Delta in what is now Dobrogea, Romania, in about 360.
		John's most famous works are the Institutes, which detail how to live the monastic life, and the Conferences, which provide details of conversations between John and Germanus and the Desert Fathers.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /John_Cassian (266 words)

	John Cassian and His Work
		John Cassian was a zealous monk whose theology (unfortunately, one might say) has been massively influential on the church’s understanding of the whole of the gospel since the fifth century.
		John Cassian, On the Incarnation against Nestorius, in The Works of John Cassian, trans.
		Cassian, The Conferences of John Cassian, in The Works of John Cassian, 3:16.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/onsite/Cassians_Response.html (2911 words)

	"From John Cassian to John Main: Reflections on Christian Meditation"
		Cassian's role as liaison in this matter is all the more essential as Latin monasticism has not produced a phrase analogous to the Jesus Prayer, nor has it even used any other Christian mantra in a sustained way.
		Cassian interested him above all for the relationship he was able to establish between the spiritual world of the Rule and more recent mystical expression.
		John Main "was, before his death, moving towards the fuller silence of the eremitical life" (Christian Meditation, page 60).
	www.wccm.org /images/JMCassiantoMain3.htm (4863 words)

	theokosmos
		John Cassian was a zealous monk whose theology (unfortunately, one might say) has been massively influential on the church’s understanding of the whole of the gospel since the fifth century.
		Cassian and Germanus then carried a petition on his behalf from the clergy of Constantinople to Pope Innocent in Rome, where Cassian made the acquaintance of one Archdeacon Leo, later to become Pope Leo the Great.
		Most of Cassian’s relevant arguments are laid out in the 13th book of his Conferences, which is a record of a conversation with Abbot Chaeremon entitled “On the Protection of God,” though he does touch upon the same doctrines, to lesser extents, in several other places.
	theokosmos.org (5711 words)

	COCM July 2001
		Both John Cassian and Germanus were put in charge of the treasury, which was the only part of the Cathedral to escape fire in 404 A.D. St. John Cassian witnessed the terrible persecution of St. John Chrysostom, and took his side in the controversy.
		John Cassian called the Institutes, "Twelve books on the institutes of the monasteries and the remedies for the eight principal faults." His monasteries in Marseilles, organized around his "Institutes" (the Rule), were looked up to by others, and his fame increased.
		John Cassian was sorrowful that he could not dedicate the book to Bishop Castor, so St. John Cassian dedicated the book to Leontius Bishop of Frejus, and Helladius who was called "brother." Part II, with Conferences XI to XVII was dedicated to Honoratus and Eucherius, who he called brothers.
	celticchristianity.org /COCQ/COCM200107.html (13308 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cassian John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassian, John, also called Johannes Eremita or Johannes Massiliensis (360-435), early Christian monk and theologian.
		John (of England), called John Lackland (1167-1216), King of England (1199-1216), best known for signing Magna Carta.
		Numbered rulers named John are entered below by their countries, in alphabetical order, and by regnal numbers.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cassian_John.html (98 words)

	58. John Cassian: The Institutes (Ancient Christian Writers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassian was a 4th/5th Century religious and priest who founded two monasteries in Western Europe.
		The work is divided into two parts: his description of the institutes or guiding principles of Egyptian monasticism; and in the second part of the book he describes the eight principal vices and their remedies.
		Cassian shows that being one with Christ in obedience to the Father's will was what the monks of Egypt aspired to above all else.
	www.anydonation.com /books/book.php?isbn=0809105225.html (321 words)

	57. John Cassian: The Conferences (Ancient Christian Writers)
		While the stories of the desert fathers may sound daunting, their thoughts, as transmitted (and certainly adapted) by John Cassian are surprisingly honest, refreshing, and inspirational.
		As Cassian writes in the preface, we can criticize them as being too extreme, but the evidence of their lives testifies on their behalf.
		The "Conferences", set up as though Cassian was in dialogue with the great hermits of his day (and in some cases, perhaps he actually was) deal with the various issues, choices, and crises which beset all Christians -- not merely those to whom the grace of the religious life has been given.
	www.anydonation.com /books/book.php?isbn=0809104849.html (463 words)

	Saint John Cassian -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Cassian's theology stemmed from, and was subordinate to, his concept of monasticism.
		Probably of Roman birth, Cassian became a monk at Bethlehem and later visited and was trained by the hermits and monks of Egypt.
		Cassian's most influential work is his Institutes of the Monastic Life (420–429); this, and his Collations of the Fathers (or Conferences of the Egyptian Monks), written as dialogues of the Desert Fathers, were influential in the further development of Western monasticism.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9020651 (1020 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Cassian (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Cassian, Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biographies
		John Cassian[kash´un] Pronunciation Key (Johannes Cassianus), 360–435, an Eastern Christian monk and theologian who brought Eastern spirituality to the West.
		Cassian toured the ascetic monastic settlements of Egypt before he was driven from the East during the controversy over the theology of Origen.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cassian.html (245 words)

	SAINTS AND FEASTS
		In the year 403 they went to Constantinople, where Cassian was ordained deacon by Saint John Chrysostom; after the exile of Saint Chrysostom, Saints Cassian and Germanus went to Rome with letters to Pope Innocent I in defence of the exiled Archbishop of Constantinople.
		Saint John Cassian refuted this blasphemy in the thirteenth of his Conferences, with Abbot Chairemon, which eloquently sets forth, at length and with many citations from the Holy Scriptures, the Orthodox teaching of the balance between the grace of God on one hand, and man's efforts on the other, necessary for our salvation.
		Saint Benedict of Nursia, in Chapter 73 of his Rule, ranks Saint Cassian's Institutes and Conferences first among the writings of the monastic fathers, and commands that they be read in his monasteries; indeed, the Rule of Saint Benedict is greatly indebted to the Institutes of Saint John Cassian.
	www.goarch.org /en/Chapel/saints.asp?contentid=445 (512 words)

	"The Spirit of Anger" -- St. John Cassian
		One of the best known of the Desert Fathers is the fourth century writer, St. John Cassian, whose "Institutes" and "Conferences" comprise two of the most comprehensive collections of sayings from the holy men and women of the ancient deserts.
		Does he not clearly mean that you should be angry at your vices and your rage lest you grow dark on account of your wrath and Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, begin to go down in your dusky minds and, once He departs, you offer room in your hearts to the devil?
		John Cassian, "The Institutes," (New York: The Newman Press, 2000), pp.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/feb2402.htm (739 words)

	Amazon.com: Cassian the Monk (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology): Books: Columba Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This book is a study of the life, monastic writings, and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c., 360-435).
		collections of monastic sayings, Cassian was the major spiritual influence on both the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict, as well as the source for Gregory the Great's teaching on capital sins and compunction.
		It begins by establishing Cassian's credibility as a teacher on the basis of his own experience as a monk and his familiarity with the fundamental literary sources.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195134842?v=glance (914 words)

	Cassian, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CASSIAN, JOHN [Cassian, John] (Johannes Cassianus), 360-435, an Eastern Christian monk and theologian who brought Eastern spirituality to the West.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cassian.asp (323 words)

	The Semi-Pelagian Theology of John Cassian
		Eastern Orthodox will argue that Cassian was not a semi-pelagian (and fail to explain why not) but Cassian himself saw grace and freedom as parallel, grace always cooperating with the human will for man's salvation." (p.
		The leader of this new movement was John Cassian, a pupil of Chrysostom (to whom he attributed all that was good in his life and will), and the fountain-head of Gallic monasticism; and its chief champion at a somewhat later day was Faustus of Rhegium (Riez)."
		Led by John Cassian, Hilary of Arles, Vincent of Lerins, and Faustus of Riez, joined in the controversy.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/onsite/johncassian.html (656 words)

	“I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE”
		Upon the request of a father superior of one of the Gallic monasteries, Saint Cassian wrote 12 books on regulations for novices, in the form of 24 conversations.
		Thanks to Saint Cassian, monasticism was very successful in spreading throughout the west, while his writings on ascetic life exerted great influence on the Eastern as well as the Western Churches.
		Saint John wrote "The ladder of divine ascent." In this book of 30 chapters, he traces the ascending steps towards spiritual perfection.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/holy_fathers_2.htm (12596 words)

	Church Fathers
		John Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew (c.
		John Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colessians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon (at CCEL)
		John Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and Hebrews (at CCEL)
	home.flash.net /~smabry/docs/fathers.htm (537 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
		John of Ibelin: Account of a Plea, 1198, The earliest documented instance of an appeal to the Assise sur la ligece.
		John I: Concession Of England To The Pope.
		This is the one a a minute number of texts from legal processes on same-sex activities in late medieval England.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook-law.html (4132 words)

	John Cassian: The Institutes:Ramsey, Rev, Boniface; Ramsey, Boniface; Ramsey, Boniface:0809105225:eCampus.com
		John Cassian: The Institutes:Ramsey, Rev, Boniface; Ramsey, Boniface; Ramsey, Boniface:0809105225:eCampus.com
		A companion to John Cassian's well-received Conferences in the Ancient Christian Writers series, the Institutes, known also as The Institutes of the Cenobia and the Remedies for the Eight Principle Vices, is the first written work of John Cassian, who had an immense influence on Western monasticism, and, by extension, on Western civilization.
		In the first, Cassian deals with the institutes and rules of Egyptian monasteries, including monastic garb and prayer.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0809105225 (127 words)

	"St. John Cassian on Spiritual Direction"
		In Constantinople, he became a pupil of St. John Chrysostom and was ordained by him to the diaconate.
		St. John Cassian’s book, “Conferences,” was written with the intention of providing spiritual instruction to monks.
		St. John Cassian’s life is taken from “The Prologue From Ochrid,” by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, (Birmingham, England: Lazarica Press, 1985), vol.
	www.innerlightproductions.com /thoughts/mar1499.htm (787 words)

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