Sentences with phrase «as the desert fathers»

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

Many of them became known as the desert fathers.

They became known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers.

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Of those Christian ascetics, what can be said of the desert fathers, such as Abba Daniel who fought not to sleep in order to keep vigil through the night in prayer, or Abba Macarius and his resolution of silence and strict solitude, or Abba Benjamin's radical fasting?

One of the desert fathers tells us, «To my mind there is no labour so great as prayer to God: for when one wishes to pray to God, the hostile demons make haste to interrupt the prayer, knowing that their sole hindrance is in this, a prayer poured out to God... Prayer is the burden of a mighty conflict to one's last breath.»

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: «Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

The Desert Fathers were wise because they were committed to being in God's presence as much as they possible could.

A beautifully written piece of literary criticism that mines the depth of the connection between O'Connor's achievement as a novelist and her quest, in imitation of the desert fathers, for aloneness with God.

Fumbling to find them materials from the history of Christian spirituality that might fire their imagination, I took in a sheet of selected sayings from the desert fathers that stressed the efficacy of simply «remaining in one's cell» as a purposive means of monastic self - knowledge.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beadesert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual beaDesert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

It's already clear from your comments as well as from your writing that your encounter with the spirituality of the desert fathers and mothers has been crucial — intellectually, theologically and spiritually.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

Cairns's choice of title, and the cover painting of St. Isaac the Syrian (a seventh - century Desert Father whose works are included in the original Philokalia), reflects his immersion in these texts and his conversion, but much more is going on as well.

Why should we then not be allowed, as even the desert fathers were, to borrow meditative exercises that centuries of pre-Christian practice have left us?

Eating may be «the oldest sin of all,» as Victor Buono — along with a number of the desert fathers — has proclaimed.

While the sayings and stories of the desert fathers have become popular, and names such as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, the Syrian Jacob of Sarug, and medievals Richard and Bernard and John of the Cross and Theresa, are often invoked, Cassian has languished.

When the desert fathers spoke of the «passions» and fasting as a means to control them, I think they meant something similar to what I mean by addiction.

As the story is told, Father Ephraim was driving through the desert just outside Florence, Arizona, when he heard heavenly bells.

British Cohort Study interviewer instructions for sweep 2 in 1975 (cohort child at five years) state that «if the [birth] father is divorced, separated or has «deserted» the mother, he is not considered as a «father figure» even if visiting the child daily» (see page 68 of our full report)!

I sympathize: There's a letter from St. Jerome, one of the fathers of the desert, who gave up a prosperous live in Rome to live strictly as a monk in Bethlehem.

In episode 104, people try to get closer to God through pictures as a group of people gather every month in the Mojave Desert hoping to take God's photo, and an artist serves dinner to his Jesus model, his atheist girlfriend, and her religious father.

Yet for this young girl who has been deserted by her father and begrudgingly babysat by her uncle, life on the football team becomes a way to build confidence and gain friends while learning to believe in her own self - worth as a person... valuable lessons for anyone who feels like a longshot.

Far from deserted, the location is controlled by the evil Mathias Vogel (a suitably terrifying Walton Goggins), who is using shipwrecked fishermen as slaves to dig out the same tomb searched by Laura's father.

However, his father insisted he had done the right thing in deserting him at an early age, as it stirred up anger and emotions in his son that ended up making him a ferocious force on the field of play.

«Nos batailles,» Guillaume Senez's follow - up to «Keeper,» toplines French star Romain Duris as a dedicated labor activist who is forced to start acting as a father when his wife deserts him.

Scott and Elise are staying in the Hamptons, which is practically deserted in wintertime, as Elise handles the affairs of her dying father.

As the desert sands run out on her life's hourglass, Siena must uncover the truth about the Wild Ones while untangling the web of lies and deceit her father has masterfully spun.