Sentences with phrase «became monks»

The men travelled to continental Europe where they became monks and founded monasteries, before returning to Britain to carry out their ministry.

After receiving his PhD, he decided that he would travel to the Himalayas, where he became a monk at age 30.

Orthodox priests have always been allowed to marry UNLESS THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO BECOME MONKS for themselves.

(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.»)

to become a monk, you have to go through a process... and the other monks will not let you pursue it for selfish reasons (avoiding the world).

To become a monk is not easy, and the life of a monastic is not easy - but filled with joys few in the cultural world will every know.

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.

Padre Pio became a monk at the age of 15 and at 31 received the stigmata.

This caused disloyal people to cut off their hair, (to become monks and nuns), and to give only second place to their prince and to their parents.

He called on St Anne for help and vowed to become a monk if he survived.

But becoming a monk gave him what he saw as a golden opportunity: he could make himself more attractive to God and so — hopefully — earn his love.

I shall become a monk!»

Like the young Luther, who gave up studying law to become a monk in hopes of finding God's favor, this young man has tried his best to please God.

«But we are at Calvin because we have taken special vows — it is sort of like becoming a monk» — but he added, «without the celibacy!»

In 574, at the age of thirty - four, taking the oath of poverty and celibacy, he became a monk according to the pattern of St. Benedict.

Martin Luther became a monk after making an oath to God in the middle of a lightning storm.

John Cassian was born in the middle of the fourth century in what is present day Romania, and as a young man he became a monk in Bethlehem.

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.

Reared in Rome, in his early twenties he became a monk, probably in a branch Cluniac house in that city.

My purpose is to recall, in a short preface, what took place between you and me in order to show the pious reader the argument and the content of the book, together with an example... It is now almost sixteen years since I became a monk, taking the vow without your knowledge and against your will.

For I remember very well, later... I told you that I had been called by terrors from heaven and that I did not become a monk of my own free will and desire, still less to gain any human satisfaction but that I was walled in by the terror and agony of sudden death and forced by necessity to take the vow.

After a period of puppy love for monasticism, in which he is convinced that he has a vocation to become a monk of Quarr Abbey, he gets caught up in the new irreverent comedy that he encounters when he begins attending Cambridge University.

A layman benefits from Buddhist teaching, of course, and in another life he may hope to become a monk, if not in this, and so attain birthlessness; but the scheme narrows greatly the opportunity to attain salvation.

If he writes, his fingers will get sore, arithmetic may cause pains in his chest (why, one wonders); painting would hurt his eyes; so in the end they decide he shall become a monk, since this is the easiest and most comfortable way to make a living!

This involves leading the common life and becoming a monk:

They wanted him to marry but he was drawn by the love of Christ and, unknown to them, made his way to the Holy Mountain of Athos to become a monk at the Bulgarian monastery of Zographou.

It's designed for modern living, so you don't have to become a monk or do anything extreme to reap the rewards.

Khenchen Rinpoche became a monk at an early age, underwent the traditional 3 year, 3 month, 3 day retreat three times by the age of thirty, and became a Druponla (retreat master) during his second full retreat.

After three minutes, I started thinking about becoming a monk.

Giovanni have practiced meditation daily (for the past 16 years, totaling over 7,000 hours at this point), read hundreds of books, tried several different practices, spent time on retreats with masters and instructors around the world, and nearly became a monk a couple of times.

(In Hindi and English with subtitles) Shaolin (R for violence) Martial arts action flick about a Chinese warlord (Andy Lau) who temporarily becomes a monk to atone for his sins before returning to a life of violence to avenge the murder of his entire family by a rival gang.

One of the boys was becoming a monk and the other was moving in with family a couple hours outside the city.

Pablo Picasso famously claimed that his mother said to him, «If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope.»

In fact, you the viewer and I the artist become the monk in a Chinese landscape painting.

Giovanni have practiced meditation daily (for the past 16 years, totaling over 7,000 hours at this point), read hundreds of books, tried several different practices, spent time on retreats with masters and instructors around the world, and nearly became a monk a couple of times.

Not exact matches

Jesus Christ was either a Jew who became a Buddist monk in India or a Buddist monk from India (this is the Holy Grail!).

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to EuMonks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Eumonks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

It was Anskar, a monk who had already been one of a ground - breaking group in the land of the recently converted Saxons, who became the head of the perilous Frankish enterprise for winning the piratical Scandinavians.

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

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

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).

'» Bishop Basil, who served the Orthodox Church in America, became a frequent visitor to Russia after the Soviet collapse, did precisely that» no matter the personal inconvenience» often to the chagrin of moaning monks dragged along for the ride.

Himmelfarb's final example is the biographer Phyllis Rose, who, against her brother - in - law's strongly expressed wishes, published an intimate account of his abandoning a successful career as a concert pianist in order to become a contemplative monk.

Several of the monks entered the ministry of the church and became priests, bishops, metropolitans and even Catholicos.

Hence, the monks devised a new, purely defensive martial art that became know as «The Way of the Jew»....

Monastic wealth built up, and the monks became entrepreneurs — an early version of secularization of the church.

It was from Gregory's closest circle of fellow monks, however, that the first missionaries to England shortly thereafter came, led by Augustine, Gregory's close friend from St. Andrew, who became the first bishop of Canterbury and the principal «Apostle to the English.»

Gregory was the first monk to become pope.

They should give up on politics and become a priest or pastor or monk, or whatever.

«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.