Saint John Cassian on Prayer

For 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 distinction 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 resources by Christians in the East and West. The two classical conferences on Prayer and published here in a new translation by Augustine Casiday together with a critical introduction.