TextA−AA+Bookmarks0← Works of St John Cassian (Institutes, Conferences, On the Incarnation)↑ The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal FaultsChapter XXIX. How a monk can retain his poverty.Works of St John Cassian (Institutes, Conferences, On the Incarnation) · Saint John CassianCassian 1.155.1How a monk can retain his poverty.Cassian 1.155.1Cassian 1.155.2And we can only preserve this virtue unimpaired if we remain in a monastery, and as the Apostle says, having food and clothing, are therewith content.Cassian 1.155.2← Chapter XXVIII. That the victory over covetousness can only be gained by stripping one's self bare of everything.Chapter XXX. The remedies against the disease of covetousness. →