Sentences with phrase «when monk»

The first written description of the dog dates to 1297, when a monk wrote about a sailor hauled out of the sea by a dog with a «black coat of rough hair, cut to the first rib and with a tuft on the tip of his tail.»

Being blind from birth, they have no idea what this strange creature is, but when one monk feels the elephant's leg, he concludes «an elephant is just like a tree,» and when another monk feels the trunk, he disagrees, saying «an elephant is just like a snake,» and so on.

It looks, he says, like a great thing when a monk renounces the world and pursues a life of asceticism, fasting, prayers and vigils in the cloister.

It looks like a great thing when a monk renounces everything and goes into a cloister, carries on a life of asceticism, fasts, watches, prays, etc...

But when the monks sang plainchant, they weren't using the organ.

This is something I definitely have to try there... The Pharisäer from Germany has as far as I know a long tradition, when monks were secretly drinking alcohol, hidden in the coffee...

When Monks's pleas fall on deaf ears, he fashions a daring escape during a snowstorm, with the young boy slung across his back — and brings the wrath of a madman down on himself and his family, culminating in a diabolically crafted «revolution» — a recreation of Hitchcock's The Birds, but with human predators, unleashed on the town of Bodega Bay, California.

When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off - the - grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine make for combustible, uneasy bedfellows — and that Glenn has fallen under the spell of a disenfranchised countercultural sociopath known simply as Freeboot, who claims that a revolution «of the people» is already under way.

When the monks realized how great their sense of smell was they began using them for rescue work.

During the mid 1600s, the breed became popular when the monks of the Hospice of St. Bernard discovered these dogs had an uncanny ability for guiding and saving lost travelers crossing between Switzerland and Italy, as well as detecting avalanches.

Like magic sunspot motion at a distance, unproven regional effect TLA's we only have some shakey monastic scribbles in Latin to support (at a time when monks were renowned to lie in their reports to try to obtain recruits or patrons).

Not exact matches

Now, enthusiasts line up to hoard rarities like the annual spring release of Halifax's Garrison Spruce Beer; esoteric and earthy Italian imports like Panil; and, most famously, Westvleteren XII, a Belgian ale brewed by Trappist monks that sold out in minutes when it hit 16 Ontario liquor stores at a cost of $ 80 per six - pack last December.

When he asked attendees to raise their hands if they have a smart phone, 98 % did, only the few dozen brown - clad monks did not follow suit.

Personally, when I think of Buddism I think of the Fighting monks of Shaolin.

Nevertheless, when I lived in Moscow and regularly attended the one weekly adult — education offering, a Bible study, fewer than thirty - five people were present, and the monk's instruction often seemed over their heads.

Mulgrew said when a child dies it hits the monks particularly hard.

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.

(Recall the Desert Father who, when asked why the demons were so afraid of him, replied, «From the moment I became a monk I have striven to prevent anger rising to my lips.»)

When St Augustine arrived in England, he wrote to Pope Gregory to describe the aggression, lawlessness and promiscuity, the broken families and the neglect of children, which his monks had encountered there.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

When I first read the Rule of St. Benedict many years ago, his injunction «to keep death daily before your eyes» seemed morbid, epitomizing a negative stereotype of the stern, ascetic monk.

When the townspeople saw two versions of the monk and the woman — the real ones free and the disguised devils in fetters — they concluded that demons had faked the crimes in order to blacken the names of the pious.

The monks became exemplars for me, concrete instances of what can happen when people become single - pointed about God.

I saw the show about the Monks (in greece) & it really hit home for me, I write now because i'm missing my dad, he was called home when i was 18 now 34, is anyone out there?

«Needless to say, when the next elections came around, the ballot box was once again waiting for the monks on the table of the monastery refectory.»

And the humble Basil, who upon being tonsured a monk and immediately made a bishop, asks his Metropolitan how he could follow the necessary obediences of a novice when already a hierarch.

The order arose in response against the withdrawal of the monks in an age when society was in profound flux.

Both were about the same age when they began their public ministry: «When he [Buddha] went again to the garden he saw a monk who was calm, tranquil, self — possessed, serene, and dignifwhen they began their public ministry: «When he [Buddha] went again to the garden he saw a monk who was calm, tranquil, self — possessed, serene, and dignifWhen he [Buddha] went again to the garden he saw a monk who was calm, tranquil, self — possessed, serene, and dignified.

Yet one can not help remembering that when Martin Luther walked into the imperial council hall of Charles V at Worms to meet his enemies, a famous general tapped him on the shoulder and said, «My poor monk!

«When I was a monk,» he says, «I thought that I was utterly cast away, if at any time I felt the lust of the flesh: that is to say, if I felt any evil motion, fleshly lust, wrath, hatred, or envy against any brother.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Based on your comments above regarding the Buddhists monks, it is clear / obvious that if I didn't experience adverse effects when engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation but instead experienced oneness and tranquility just like the Buddhist monks then for sure, you wouldn't accuse me of being an unorthodox enthusiast engaging in self - manufactured religion.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

When Buddha was asked, «Sir what do you and your monks practice?»

It started on 31st October 1517, when Luther, a German monk, posted 95 theses for debate on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

When they tried to do that back in 1975, Representative John Monks of Muskogee memorably rose to the defense, hailing the great tradition of cockfighting as «the sport of all free countries.»

Buddhist monks & nuns are forced to denounce the Dalai Lama, which they spiritually can't do, & when they refuse, they are jailed & often beaten by Chinese prison guards.

These specific bones were found near a 12th century monk cemetary, if said bones in questions are older and dated to around when the king lived, it's a good bet it's probably the king.

Tirso de Molina (the nom de guerre of Gabriel Téllez, a monk in his day job) wrote most of his plays between 1605 and 1625; but he did not include El Burlador de Sevilla in any collection of his works, so we do not know when — or perhaps even if — he wrote it.

Take the case of the Requiem homily: these beautiful reflections on a gruff, strong, fiercely loyal and deeply spiritual monk take on an added resonance when we consider that Fr Maurus, elderly and quite wandered, literally disappeared from the monastery and to this day, his whereabouts remain a mystery.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

This long - held popular attitude was elevated to the status of law a few years ago when the Supreme Court of Israel refused to grant Israeli citizenship to a Roman Catholic monk who claimed that he was eligible for it under a law authorizing

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

A monk of the Holy Mountain says that when small children turn their attention in some direction and laugh without a reason, it means that they see their angel.

Dorotheos said that the Pharisee was doing the right thing when he thanked God for giving him the ability to do good — as should they (the monks) themselves.

It is like the story of a monk who was reading Scripture, when all of a sudden, he slammed the book shut, walked briskly out of the monastery with the Bible under his arm and took it to the nearest bookseller, where he sold it.

When he got back to the monastery, his fellow monks asked what he had read in Scripture which had offended him so much to cause him to sell his only Bible.

The bai si (or su kwan) is a blessing ceremony indigenous to Southeast Asia, and it is performed on many special occasions — marriages, births, housewarmings, when someone becomes a monk, recovers from illness, or at the beginning or end of big journeys.

Religion and sport were united during the Super Bowel when a Toyota advert shown during the commercial break featured a priest, rabbi, imam and Buddhist monk.

With the other monks he slept in the large upstairs dormitory, ate in the refectory, listening to suitable reading at the same time; and had his stall in the church for the services which were patterned across the day and some of the night These services were centred on the recitation of the sacred poetry of the Jews, the 150 Psalms, which the early Jewish Christians had continued to recite when they became followers of Jesus, and which had become the staple Christian prayer.