Sentences with phrase «for monastic»

His conflation of church and state, so convenient in the gratification of his lust for Anne Boleyn and greed for monastic wealth, lies heavy with us still.

The Prior, Father Andrew, was fond of diluting harsher well - known expressions for monastic use, but the sentiment remained largely the same.

The pedagogical model of instruction was designed for monastic schools in the Middle Ages.

Seraphim, a convert, left the world for the monastic life in 1969, building much of what became the St. Herman Monastery with his own hands.

His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

Not exact matches

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.»

Now ensconced in a rather «old» form of monasticism based on the Rule of St. Benedict, Bonhoeffer reflected on the inherent value of monastic life for the entire church: «It would certainly be a loss (and was indeed a loss in the Reformation!)

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

But the Church's ambitious hopes for in - churching will make little progress without a vibrant intellectual culture alongside its rich liturgical and monastic traditions.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

My Uncle Paul, a monastic known as Brother Leo, would join us each year for Thanksgiving dinner, but we never offered grace for the meal.

Later there is some evidence for virgins taking formal vows and living either in their own home or in a group under the guidance of bishops such as St Athanasius and St Ambrose, and this continued for centuries until monastic life became the dominant form of female consecrated life.

It was just at the dawn of this period, so generally a time of recession for Christianity, that one of the great monastic movements came into being.

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

The following centuries of monastic experimentation gave them deep insights into humility, and into the great theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, They understood the Gospels to be saying that we are meant for great things — meant to live in imitation of Christ himself.

The hermit is an established type in both Western and Eastern Christianity, and monastic institutions, even though striving for a common and closely knit way of life seemingly at the opposite pole from solitude, have often been linked with hermetical institutions and practices of one sort or another.

The monastic policies that, for reasons of traditional obedience, hinder the human maturation and Christian growth of their members are sinful.

(Another monastic wag commented that it would have been easier for the abbot to declare her canonically not a woman.»)

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).

Engaged with a team of Lutherans in planning a «retreat,» I was asked to devise a «monastic meditation experience» for the participants.

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.

Throughout history — for the ancient Hebrews and Old Testament prophets, for Desert Fathers and monastic orders — the wilderness has humbled visitors and deflated pride.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

Hosted by the Mount Tabor Centre for Art and Spirituality and held in the monastic context of the ecumenical Community of Jesus, the retreat will include lectures and slide presentations covering the topics of Art & Life, Art & Faith, Art & Prayer and Art & Communion.

Historicity signals limits within the economy of salvation, and an increase in the status of the monastic institution: divine graciousness calls for the transcendence of history and dependence upon social institutions.

Mainline Protestants, known for their earnest activity, are finding God in silence as if they were seasoned monastics or practiced Quakers.

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 bearings.

Thomas Merton, for example, published with Harcourt Brace, New Directions, and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, as well as with small monastic and ecclesiastical presses.

Gertrude of Helfta was a German Benedictine nun who wrote, mostly for the benefit of her younger monastic sisters, as the result of the experiencing of numerous visions.

Do we retreat from the world into a state of a monastic piety waiting for the Lord to come?

The New Monastics are present day communities of Christians, living in the corners of the American empire, living and hoping for a new and radical form of Christian practice.

Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.

The new monastic communities swim against the pull of the American dream — to be financially secure, to move across the country for a better job, to plan for retirement.

The liturgy is naturally the centre of a monk's life, but Abbot Hugh stresses that the monastic round of prayer is also essentially apostolic: a monk always prays for the people, even though not always with the people.

For Dom Guéranger there is a close and vital connection between the monastic life and the Church.

I even left for two years to join a monastic community, where I thought perhaps I could live more faithfully.

Bruges was a monastic city but not (before modern tourism) a pilgrimage city, politically significant for a time because of its wealth and artistic culture, but never an imperial capital or a major ecclesiastical center.

On the plane we became friendly with a happy elderly Greek - American gentleman who told us excitedly that he was on a pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain (the monastic polity of Mount Athos) for Pascha.

Monastics have always struggled to hold in tension the desire for solitude with the importance of community and service.

For me, as a lesbian Catholic with no discernible call to monastic life, the absence within the Christian churches of a deep understanding of the human need for vocation is glaringly obvioFor me, as a lesbian Catholic with no discernible call to monastic life, the absence within the Christian churches of a deep understanding of the human need for vocation is glaringly obviofor vocation is glaringly obvious.

i doubt they have much or any of social welfare for them, and more importantly many or most, if not all, monastic orders were actually pretty self - sufficient and all, tending not only to fields and buildings, before land lived righteously on was taken / stolen from them, something which happened at various places.

Like other communities also, Samarquand retained its churches, schools and monastic cells under a succession of Arab and Turkish rulers for almost 1000 years, the Samarquand Churches surviving even the Mongol invasion of 1220.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

These differed somewhat for those in a monastic order, for the clergy, and for the lay people; Christian duties also differed for the aristocrat and the peasant.

The monasteries, for example, emphasized personal poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they did not denounce communal wealth, and some of the monastic religious orders wound up in the pre-Reformation days with incredible wealth in land holdings, much of it confiscated in the battles between the various crowns and the papacy.

Questions like these raised by constitutions and decrees of Vatican II are of particular interest to me; I was for 25 years a member of a Hindu monastic order before returning to Christianity and thus feel a deep concern for interreligious encounter.

When he was seventeen years old Louis joined the Jesuit order, (In his boyish note - book he praises the monastic life for its freedom from sin, and for the imperishable treasures, which it enables us to store up, «of merit in God's eyes which makes of Him our debtor for all Eternity.»

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.

The absence of the appearance of significant new monastic movements and of «heresies» as potent as those of the Cathari and the Waldenses, and the waning of the Papacy, culminating for the time in the Avignon Papacy, were paralleled by developments in scholastic theology which seemed to herald the breakdown of that approach as a bulwark of the Christian faith.

For some time he had been wondering about the distinctiveness of the monastic life.