14

Book 4, chs. 8 and 9.

15

This is how monasticism is called in the writings of many Holy Fathers: in the "Discourse on Reasoning" of St. Cassian the Roman, Philokalia, part 1, in the teachings of Abba Dorotheus; in the Homilies of St. Symeon the New Theologian, etc.

16

Ladder. The title of the word is 28.

17

Church Ustav, ch. 37, and the Ladder. Homily 19, ch. 5.

18

Lux. 18. 14.

19

Ladder. Homily 28, ch. 3.

20

St. Pimen the Great. Alphabetical Patericon.

21

Careful serviceability from the reader was required in ancient monasteries. St. Cassian, Book 2, Ch. 11. For a mistake in reading, the reader was subjected to epithemia. St. Cassian, Book 4, Ch. 16.

22

… the fruit of the mouth (Heb. 13. 15).

23

Church Ustav, ch. 27.

24

Borrowed from the Church Ustav, the Following Psalter and from the customs of the most comfortable Russian monasteries.

25

Church Statute, ch. 29.

26

The Monk Abba Dorotheus. Instruction 3. About conscience.

27

Venerable Nil of Sorsky. Homily 5, article on the measure of food.