Sentences with phrase «benedictine monk»

In a conversation at the Greater Good Gratitude Summit, Jack Kornfield explores how prayer helps cultivate gratitude with Benedictine monk...

Art as Compass towards the Future / Dom Mark Patrick Hederman / 21 June Benedictine monk and writer Mark Patrick Hederman addresses the role artists can play in the future.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a remarkable man: a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

Dom Sylvester Houédard was a remarkable man and artist: a Benedictine monk based at Prinkash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

In Britain the Beat movement was altogether more sedate but in typical low - key fashion Britain did produce one truly outstanding counter-culture figure; Dom Sylvester Houédard, Benedictine monk, artist, poet, intellectual and theologian.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

These presentations of modern masters and their tribal influences are complemented by the expanded Spotlight section, which will highlight solo artist presentations of 31 pioneers of 20th - century practice, such as Thomas Kovachevich (Callicoon Fine Arts, New York); self - taught artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia); Barbara Chase - Riboud (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York); and Dom Sylvester Houédard — a Benedictine monk turned counter-culture cult figure of 1960s London (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).

We also have a very exciting show coming up in New York in May, presenting seminal works by the pioneering conceptual artist John Latham, alongside work by the Benedictine monk and influential cultural figure, Dom Sylvester Houédard.

It was only a few minutes drive to the next town of Haut Villiers, (which mans high place and an apt description of this quaint hilly town) where the near blind Benedictine monk lived and died.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

It was there that he met Bede Griffiths, an English Benedictine monk who lived in a Christian ashram, and to whom A New Science of Life is dedicated.

This story spread through Buddhist circles, making its way to the United States, where Brother David Steindl - Rast, a Benedictine monk, heard it.

He takes Hendra to see a Benedictine monk of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight for spiritual counseling.

I started journalling over 20 years ago, having been strongly influenced by the famous Benedictine monk, Thomas Merton.

Years ago I read Monica Furlong's biography of Thomas Merton, the Benedictine monk / writer / mystic who died in 1967.

It began pleasantly, almost innocently, in December 1613 in Florence at a breakfast to which Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, invited his mother, the Grand Duchess Christina, and the Benedictine monk and mathematics professor Benedetto Castelli, among others.

How can Thomas Merton, a Benedictine monk and hermit, who's writing revitalized the American monastic movement in the fifties and sixties, die in Bangkok while participating in a spiritual summit with Buddhists?

I have not forgotten the day when, as a graduate student at Princeton, I sat in Firestone Library talking with a fellow graduate student who happened to be a Benedictine monk.

Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.

In his moving speech, Catholic Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl - Rast offers a different path to happiness, one that can be patiently drawn from the simple yet potent daily practice of being grateful and sharing your gratitude with others.

In the hundred years between 850 and 950, Benedictine monks were driven out of ancient monasteries, the Papal States were overrun, and Muslim pirate bases were established along the coast of northern Italy and southern France, from which attacks on the deep inland were launched.

Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits.»

It speaks to the satisfactions I've found recently through intentional encounters with the unscreened world: in helping my neighbor load up his baby pigs; putting my phone in a tray as I come through the front door so that I remember to give my kids my whole self; observing the way the Benedictine monks on the hill near my home bow in greeting one another and the way their eyes pierce me — greeting me, the stranger, as a guest, as Christ.

Dr. Podles wants to make much of the warrior motif in the era of «heroic Christianity,» and he claims that the Benedictine monks were properly manly because they saw the spiritual life as a struggle with Satan while twelfth - century Cistercians and women saw it as an erotic submission to Jesus the bridegroom.

With my two brothers, I was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, and though I turned against the school, leaving at the age of sixteen, I did not doubt, and have never doubted, the truth of the Catholic religion.

Steeped in more than 1,000 years of history, Benedictine monks first came to the site in the middle of the 10th century.

I am a lifelong Christian who was taught evolution by Benedictine monks over fifty years ago.

16:9 (ERV)-- «The early Benedictine monks rejoiced in their labors because they conceived themselves as thereby made fellow - workers with Christ» (AE 67).

The Camaldolese Benedictine monks of Big Sur will receive their payment from the last year's LA VITA.

Illini fans have responded to the team's stunning success — a Champaign supernova, as it were — by comporting themselves with enough passion to make Duke's Cameron Crazies look like Benedictine monks.

Many of them, he says, focused on such groups as Roman Catholic priests or Benedictine monks, which forbid certain risky behaviors.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

When a single, colour - splashed page slid out of an old book, like a falling leaf, the Benedictine monks of New Norcia presumed it was a Christmas card.

Journey through acres of wheatbelt fields and the historic town of New Norcia, built by the Benedictine monks with it's traditional architecture and priceless works of art.

Now this tiny chapel, still home to Benedictine monks, has once again found itself on the map.

Not exact matches

For monks in the Benedictine tradition, daily prayer structures the entire day and the whole of their life in community.

The Benedictine model of monasticism, with its stress on ora et labora, undoubtedly attributed great dignity to manual labor, though the first duty of the monk was always the Divine Office, called his «Opus Dei.»

Gregory, later named «the Great,» who had been caught up in the first flush of the Benedictine movement and had devoted his inherited wealth to the poor and the Church, sent the famous contingent of Roman monk - missionaries to Britain.

James would thrive at a 10,000 - person worship service in a stadium; I'd prefer a Benedictine monastery with twelve monks in brown robes.

I shall remember the face, voice, and the manner which betokened the tranquil, yet fervent, the deep yet gay spirit of the excellent monk... So humble, so modest, so kindly and yet with an odour of prayer about him, he seemed the very spirit of the Benedictine beauty of holiness.

Monks of the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine order lived here, surrounded by a tall wall and moat, at the edge of marshes and oak woods, according to the town's official history.

Then flambeed with Southern Comfort, or Mampe Halb and Halb bitters (delisted now — sort of like Benedictine but better; also made by the monks).