Sentences with phrase «monasteries as»

The area is famous for its ancient Buddhist temples and monasteries as well as for being a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Many religious organizations offer affordable lodging in their convents and monasteries as well.

It was originally used in Buddhist Monasteries as a guard dog to warn monks of intruders, however, it has since become a prominent player in the world of show dogs.

The Church adapted herself to the feudal way of life, with the parish church and the monasteries as focal points of communal life.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

Crossan told me had a «magnificent» education growing up in Ireland and entering the monastery as a teenager.

Or will they be sent to some monastery as the means to hide them?

In mid-life, he entered a monastery as a lay brother.

The second circle was the whole monastery as far as the outer gate.

They pray for the region, and I like to think of the monastery as a lighthouse that has been pulsing in this dark corner of the world for nearly 130 years.

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING (Grade: B): Kim Ki - duk's gentle, beautiful and remarkable film follows the lifelong relationship between an old monk (Oh Young - soo) and a young boy brought to his monastery as a baby.

This is the prettiest part of the city and the hotel is easy walking distance from sights such as the gilt Jesuit church of La Compañía, Museo de la Ciudad and the Franciscan monastery as well as excellent restaurants.

The site is as old as the 3rd century BC and served as a monastery as well as a royal residence over the years.

Arcades will first get the monastery as part of an update on Feb. 22, while the console version of Dissidia will receive the stage as part of an update in late March.

Not exact matches

As the McMass campaigners note, Trappist monks have a long history of selling beer to fund their monasteries.

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

Today, LaserMonks is an online retail business that sells toner, printer ribbons, and copier and fax supplies, as well as products from other monasteries, including preserves and dog biscuits.

Places of economic value, such as farms, markets, and places of worship — mosques, of course, but also churches, monasteries, and convents — are not to be targeted for attack.

The Catholic challenge seems clear: if the way forward depends on intentional communities of Christian formation rather like Benedictine monasteries, then what shall we hope for from the parishes located, as it were, outside the monastery walls?

They were university students, and I remember reading in 1957, my first year as a university student, a news report that the son of Hermann Goering had entered a cloistered monastery.

Whereas monastic spirituality regarded vocation as a calling out of the world into the desert or the monastery, Luther and Calvin regarded vocation as a calling into the everyday world.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

For the contemplative, prayer is her work, essential as it is, and she is often engaged in hospitality at her monastery.

Some brews today — such as Weihenstephan (founded 1040 AD) and Leffe (1240 AD)-- originated in medieval monasteries.

Part - time mystics don't exist only in monasteries, we're hiding in all walks of life and the Spirit often speaks as clearly in our betwixt moments.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

Here's a list of four common misunderstandings that have appeared as mindfulness spread from the monastery to the middle - class home.

As an indication of the seriousness of the matter, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 decreed that violators of the seal of confession should be «deposed from the priestly office» and then «consigned to a closed monastery for perpetual penance.»

Eyes open, shoulder - checking, in - the - midst - of - life prayers are just as meaningful and powerful, I think, as any in a church altar call or a monastery.

Each fresh wave of invaders brought fresh destruction, and especially to such centers of culture and repositories of wealth as churches and monasteries.

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.»

There is a definite charm to monasteries, but as a journalism student I can't imagine intentionally ignoring the world.

The monks told Simon that Hitler was planning to pillage the monasteries for their art treasures, even going so far as to send officers to photograph more than 1,000 works of art.

The absence of women — as well as of many other things — gives the monks more freedom to devote themselves more fully to prayer, including for those denied entrance to their monasteries and lands (there are women's monasteries, by the way, closed to men for the same reason).

Like in all Orthodox monasteries, is you go as a visitor they welcome you and you are welcome to stay for as long as you want, without asking for money, as a guest, you don't have to become a monk.

Just as Cromwell defies the pope, confiscates church property, and dismantles the monasteries brick by brick, so Mantel herself, another ambitious child from the provinces, rhetorically tears down the reputation of the Catholic Church and its saints.

In the monasteries, also known collectively as the Holy Mountain or The Garden of the Mother of God, the monks spend most of their time in prayer and are purposefully isolated from the outside world.

It thus seems to me that Rod is not first and foremost calling for an alternative Christian culture in terms of institutions such as a retreat to a monastery in the Rockies, though it does not necessarily exclude the creation of such alternatives.

We do not believe by ourselves, as individuals in isolation; we believe as part of a community of believers, whether the community is a Benedictine monastery, a communist cell, a Protestant congregation, a Jewish minyan or a Hindu ashram.

b) As Hitler approached boyhood he attended a monastery school.

Major icons of the transfiguration, moreover, such as the sixth - century mosaics in the apse of the monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai and St. Apollinaris Church in Ravenna, or the 14th - century icons of Andrei Rublev and Theophane the Greek, did not just reflect but substantially contributed to the development of Byzantine theology.

If Madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorism, then its no differentwhen it comes down to child molestation as reported at no less than 25 different occasions from abbots, monasteries and churches around the world in the past decade.

Westminster Abbey, which started as a monastery before evolving into the collegiate church it is today, is a Royal Peculiar, meaning it is under the monarchy's jurisdiction.

We will repress this long standing pestilence to its roots... In all the Empire more than four thousand six hundred monasteries are destroyed, two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred monks and nuns are returning to the world, both (men and women) to be received as tax paying householders.

Luther joined an Augustinian monastery but continued to be troubled by the bouts of depression that he had known as a student.

Aside from that, I think it depends on who's biography of Luther you read (regarding Luther's self - view); some paint him as a tortured soul, others as a man of his times who was (relatively) happy to be so prior to entering the monastery.

, he used a very dodgy dossier of abuses compiled by his vicar - general, Cromwell as an excuse to «dissolve» the monasteries.

«34 The inhabitants of the monasteries were hurled into the proletariat and subtenants of the church's estates had their land confiscated as they were themselves forcibly removed.

The author addresses this in her introduction, stressing that this work will focus instead on «those around her who would describe themselves as «lesser souls» compared to Therese, but who nevertheless put into practice her «Little Way», those who were part of her life, both in her family and in the monastery.

Eventually she, too, was able to enter the Carmel, where her scholarly nature found fulfilment as the monastery archivist.