The Medieval Church · c. 800–826
The Small and Great Catecheses
Theodore the Studite · 759 – 826
What it is
Short addresses given to the Stoudios community three times a week, mostly about the ordinary difficulty of the life: the brother who resents the kitchen, the temptation to think one's own work more important, and what to do with a superior's decision you believe to be wrong.
Why it lasted
The most detailed record of how a large Byzantine monastery actually ran, from the abbot who reorganised Eastern monasticism around common life and manual labour. The Stoudite rule shaped Athos, and through Athos the Slavic monasteries.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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