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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:HUMILITY AND PATIENCE \nFrom “The Institutes” of John Cassian \n◊◊◊ \nWhoever seeks to be received into the discipline of the cenobium is never \nadmitted until\, by lying outside for ten days or more\, he has given an indication \nof his perseverance and desire\, as well as of his humility and patience. \nWhen a person has been admitted\, has been tested in the perseverance \nabout which we have spoken\, and has put aside his own garments and been \nclothed in the monastic habit\, he is not permitted to join the community of the \nbrothers immediately but is assigned to an elder who dwells not very far from \nthe entrance of the monastery and is responsible for being hospitable to trav- \nellers and strangers. And when he has served for a full year there and has \nwithout any complaining waited upon travellers\, having in this way been \nexposed to his first training in humility and patience\, and he is about to be \nadmitted from this to the community of the brothers\, he is given over to another \nelder who is responsible for ten younger men\, who have been entrusted to him \nby the Abba… \nThe chief concern and instruction of this man\, whereby the young man \nwho was brought to him may be able to ascend even to the loftiest heights of \nperfection\, will be\, first of all\, to teach him to conquer his desires. In order to \nexercise him assiduously and diligently in this respect\, he will purposely see to it \nthat he always demands of him things that he would consider repulsive. For\, \ntaught by numerous experiences\, they declare that a monk\, and especially the \nyounger men\, cannot restrain their yearning for pleasure unless they have first \nlearned to mortify their desires through obedience. And so they assert that \nsomeone who has not first learned to overcome his desires can never extinguish \nanger or sadness or the spirit of fornication\, nor can he maintain true humility \nof heart or unbroken unity with his brothers or a solid and enduring peace\, nor \ncan he even stay in the cenobium for any length of time. \nWith these institutes\, then\, as with the rudiments of the alphabet\, they \ninitiate those whom they strive to direct toward perfection. In this way they \ndiscern clearly whether they are grounded in a humility that is deceptive and \nimaginary or in one that is real. In order to be able to arrive easily at this\, they \nare then taught never\, through a hurtful shame\, to hide any of the wanton \nthoughts in their hearts but to reveal them to their elder as soon as they surface\, \nnor to judge them in accordance with their own discretion but to credit them \nwith badness or goodness as the elder’s examination discloses and makes clear. \nThus the clever foe is never able to get the better of a young man when he \nsees that he is protected not by his own but by his elder’s discretion. Indeed\, the \ndevil in all his slyness will not be able to deceive or cast down a young man \nunless he induces him\, either by haughtiness or by embarrassment\, to cover up \nhis thoughts. For they declare that it is an invariable and clear sign that a \nthought is from the devil if we are ashamed to disclose it to an elder.
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