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.

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

23

Church Ustav, ch. 27.

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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.

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

28

Church Statute, ch. 35.

29

St. Gregory the Sinaite Useful Chapters, Chapter 18. Philokalia. Part 1.

30

Church Statute, ch. 35.

31

In the same place and in the Alphabetical Patericon.

32

Epistle to the monk Nicholas.

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Monastic expression.

34

Alphabetical Patericon.

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The writer of these canons, visiting the most experienced elders at his first beginning, noticed this laudable custom among them.

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The Life of St. Symeon the New Theologian, manuscript; there is a life of this saint of God and a printed edition of the Optina Hermitage.

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