Sentences with phrase «about monk»

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Find out more about monk fruit extract, the low - calorie sweetener that is actually sweeter than sugar.

I was talking about monk.

In spite of the ungainly figure he cuts, there is something instantly soothing about the monk.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

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?

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

The mid and high registers, though somewhat restrained when compared to the surprising low and low - mid response, are well balanced in the mix, providing just the right amount of shimmer in the cymbals on jazz mixes like Dafnis Prieto's About The Monks.

Not exact matches

If there's one thing the city can guarantee, it's that there will be plenty of opportunities for new experiences to add to your life story: eat some insects from the Sunday Night Market, speak about life with a monk, watch some muay thai.

While the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, does not often speak about business explicitly, choosing instead to focus on teachings about compassion and peace, he sounded a lot like an aging CEO preparing to pass the reins.

The abbey, which houses seven «full - time» monks, requires about $ 175,000 a year to operate.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

I always get in a conversation about how it takes more faith to pursue science than religion and how many scientific universities were created by early monks.

There were many crackdowns & priests & monks seemed to fall inline, until the whispers began, about the altar boys!

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

I was flirting with the worst kind of pride — pious pride — and I was certainly not loving others in the way the monks loved them or in the way Christ tells us we must if we are serious about following him.

This isn't about to get to heaven, nor do any of those say that because they are a monk they will go to heaven.

One more point, according to the epistle of James, the prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore as the monks heal their souls, their prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).

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 dignified.

Bondi shares what she has learned about the practice of prayer from her study of Christian monks of ancient Egypt.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

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?

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.

Dostoevsky tells us that Zossima is about to rise from the earth, but in the form of Alyosha, the monk in the world.

Later, monasteries took on the task of hospitality, and the monks were very reflective about it.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

I - monk blog had a good post about Christ-less sermons, yesterday.

For about six years Nikon appeared to be attaining his goal, but as was to be expected, he met vigorous opposition from many of the nobility, clergy, and monks.

A cloistered monk is not in the best position to be well - informed about the outside world.

Our second monk, William of Ockham, was born in England about a dozen years after Aquinas's death, joined the Franciscans, was educated and later taught at Oxford, and died in 1347 in Munich after a life of considerable turbulence, both intellectual and ecclesiastical.

Dom James found out about the relationship (another monk overheard a telephone conversation), and ordered Merton not to contact the young woman again, but surreptitious contacts went on for some months.

He waxed eloquent about the nuns who did not have true vocation to celibacy — and the monks: «Unless she is in a high and unusual state of grace a young woman can do without a man as little as she can do without eating, drinking, sleeping or other natural requirements.

Before that war was over, the socialists, of whom Zapatero is proud to be an ideological heir, had murdered 12 bishops, 4,184 priests, 2,365 monks, and about 300 nuns.

Whether offering her take on a social controversy, teaching about the lives of the saints, interviewing Orthodox monks, or discussing the vicissitudes of transitioning from a once radical feminist to a now devout priest's wife, Matthewes - Green's podcast is a gentle and loving presence in the contemporary dissonance of strident discourse.

«You people do not convince me yet that the vows of priests and monks are to be considered as in the same category... I am pretty well agreed that those who entered the abyss before or during the age of puberty can leave it with a clear conscience; but about those who have grown old and stayed on in this state, I don't know yet.»

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

I accidentally laughed out loud when I thought about how I was «sexting with the monks.»

For about four years he lived with Carthusian monks at the London Charter house.

Since the monks had been about to throw it away, they were willing to give it to him.

Although the ideas of Clement and Origen about teachers, gnostics, and angels are important for the later theories both of prelacy and the pastoral function of the monks, we must return to Rome and Carthage for the more immediately significant developments in the history of the ancient ministries of the Church.

The monks spend about six hours a day in services — common practice in Orthodox monasteries — and sometimes longer, as during an all - night vigil.

It is told of Newman's Roman Catholic diocesan, the straightforward English monk Bishop Ullathorne of Birmingham, that he said something on his deathbed about St. Benedict and the angels, and when asked if he saw them answered, yes he did.56 Frank Weston returned from the plaudits of London crowds to die, as he would have wished to, in his mud and straw «palace» at Hegongo.

«Consumers are really concerned about sugar, so using monk fruit brings our sugar and calories down significantly.

I've written before about the pseudo meat - monks that will religiously tend a fire from dawn till dusk.

I'm don't have any experience or knowledge about the SCD protocol, but Kim (see comment below) is trying it with liquid monk fruit extract, so that may work?

Zen monks don't know much about muscle, but they know a lot about living long, unstressed lives.

A spokesperson for Bercow told the Mail on Sunday: «The Speaker doesn't expect MPs to be Trappist monks, but he would like to open a discussion about improving behaviour at PMQs.»

Researchers report in Conservation Letters this week that the monk seal population in Hawaii's Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument is shrinking by about 4 percent a year, while a sub-population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands next door — where fishing, development and boat activity are permitted — is increasing by 7 percent a year.

It is now clear that Omar Khan Massoudi, director of Kabul» sNational Museum, and a few other Afghans risked their lives to protect the artifacts from the Taliban, who were intent on destroying images — and who, in 2001, succeeded in blowing up the famed Bamiyan Buddhas, towering stone sculptures carved into the mountainside by monks about 1,500 years ago.

One monk wrote about his nightly practice of descending 18 steps into a holy cave and making 100 genuflections on each step.