Sentences with phrase «as a monk with»

It helps to remember that the man with whom you are intimately involved in your other life is not living as a monk with his wife.

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«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.

The second monk was silent and obviously angry for a long time as they walked and finally burst out «You know we are not allowed to come in contact with women, what were you thinking?»

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..

On any given day at Mass with the monks here in Atchison, you'll hear commemorations of saints as well as campus milestones and the death anniversaries of confreres from the 150 years of the college.

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.

Thus, these monks are continuing a long line of false religions and traditions that will be dealt with by God just before the battle of Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), as seen at Revelation 18.

A third type of monasticism, known as the coenobitic (from the Greek «for living together»), provides for monks to live together in a community with rules and a head monk.

Though I can't imagine the close relationship these monks share with God, I would also want to complete the last two parts of my Christian worldview which I feel can not be accomplished as a monk.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and «fools for Christ,» its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions» even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world.

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.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

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).

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.

I too at one time used to only associate eastern meditation practices with peaceful Buddhist monks but my experiences made me aware that some persons who engage in eastern meditation practices (which tend to be deep and intense) also experience adverse effects just as I did.

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

I myself have seen monks with open mouths, not so much singing, as doing ludicrous feats of breathing, as that they looked as if they were in their last agony or lost in rapture.

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.

Francis's meeting with Buddhist monk Sitagu Sayadaw was undertaken «in an effort to encourage peace and fraternal coexistence as the only way ahead», Mr Burke said.

As a young monk Martin Luther wrestled with this question year after year until he finally wrung from scripture his answer: Put your whole trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and you will have eternal lifAs a young monk Martin Luther wrestled with this question year after year until he finally wrung from scripture his answer: Put your whole trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and you will have eternal lifas your Savior and you will have eternal life.

If you are a monk of Tibetan Buddhism, you should take an aggressive strike on your freedoms with the same grace and joy as you take a welcoming handshake.

It was to this period that the story as told by the venerable Bede and the monk of Whitby belongs, of Gregory's memorable encounter with young Anglo - Saxons in the market (perhaps slaves), of whom he remarked: «non Angli, sed angeli» (not Angles, but angels).

Since Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, and Mohammedan dervishes unite with Jesuits and Franciscans in idealizing poverty as the loftiest individual state, it is worth while to examine into the spiritual grounds for such a seemingly unnatural opinion.

«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.

Churches whose members know Psalms as well as any medieval monk, whose hymns and prayers and praise are infused with the cadences of the Psalter.

They may be characterized rather as encyclopedias «dealing with everything that should be known by a Jain monk.

The material contained in the latest collection of Dom Hugh's writings is, as its title «Monastic Markers on the Christian Way» suggests, primarily aimed at building up the lives of the monks in his care, but the practical insights into living the Christian life contained here have a wider relevance for all who search for deeper communion with the mystery of God.

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

It is said that from them twelve monasteries arose, each with twelve monks and an abbot — as with the Irish peregrini in imitation of Christ and the twelve Apostles.

The «impudent monk», as the documents call him, was quickly dealt with.

But neither More's relatively enlightened Catholicism, nor Erasmus's quiet following of the gospel, both within the bounds of the old institution, measured up to the excitement being felt by so many men and women as they read the New Testament, brooded on it, compared it with the teaching and life - style of the monks, nuns and priests they knew.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

«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.»

The interest in Asian religion so manifest in the 1960s can be traced back to his time at Columbia University in the 30s, where he discussed oriental scriptures with a Hindu monk, Mahabarata Bramachari, who also urged him to read Christian mystical literature, such as the Confessions and the Imitation of Christ.

The monk was a successor of the ante-Nicene confessor with his power to forgive.52 It is one of the anomalies of the evolution of the monastic ideal that they who withdrew to the wilderness, for the most part dispensing with the ministries of the organized parishes and thinking of themselves as «laymen,» were presently to become the tutors and models of the «secular clergy.»

At the same time there was bound up with this a conception and practice as far from hierarchical clericalism as the spiritual autonomy of the monk is from the autocracy of the prelate.

My main source of inspiration continues to be my teachers with whom I trained as a monk.

When I had completed my commitment as a monk and returned to the UK, it was very much with the intention of making meditation more accessible.

As with anything that has been processed the good rule of thumb is to use it sparingly however it appears that monk fruit is probably not a bad choice in that it doesn't raise ones blood sugar.

I am currently trying out a sweetener made with monk fruit & erythritol (The Chinese know the fruit as Luo Han Guo).

Foods and beverages containing monk fruit sweeteners can expand lower calorie and carbohydrate options for those trying to manage weight by consuming fewer calories, as well as people with diabetes who are trying to consume fewer carbohydrates and sugars.

Some people do well with sugar alcohols such as xylitol and erythritol but they are not as good for the body as stevia or monk fruit.

Many companies mix it with high - potency sweeteners, such as stevia leaf extract or monk fruit extract, to keep the calories down while masking those other sweeteners» unpleasant aftertastes.

The Court of Appeals for this Circuit in the Gaidry case took note of these two cases, but held them not reconcilable with the later ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Baglin v. Cusenier, 221 U. S. 680 [1 T. M. Rep. 147], wherein it was held that the fact that the primary meaning of the word «Chartreuse» was geographical did not prevent the acquisition of the exclusive right to its use as the designation of a liqueur made by the monks of the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse.

I do recommend a whole - fruit extract as it is likely to maintain more benefits than mogroside extracts or combination sweeteners that mix monk fruit with other artificial sweeteners.

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.

In exposing the biological logic behind such inherited diseases, Mendel paved the way for modern - day genetic investigations — a span of progress the humble monk never imagined as he knelt in the abbey soil with his pea plants.

With the Caribbean species now extinct, the Hawaiian monk seal is the last surviving species of the genus Neomonachus, as the Mediterranean species is in its genus, Monachus.