John Cassian, born in the mid-fourth century in what is present-day Romania, exerted a major influence on Western monasticism and therefore on Western culture. As a young man he traveled to Palestine, lived in a hermitage near Bethlehem, and visited the monasteries of Egypt before traveling to Constantinople, getting caught up with the political and ecclesial controversies of the day before eventually establishing a monastery after the Egyptian model in Marseilles…
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
