Sentences with phrase «in a monastery»

SDWC Director Trish Jackman explains, «These are Tibetan Monks who live in a monastery in India.

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan is a true story of Pino Lella who was a seventeen year of Italian boy living in Millan whose parents sent him to live in a monastery in the Alps where he and his fifteen year old brother led Jewish immigrants, downed British pilots and others to freedom over the Alps to Switzerland during World War II.

After crossing the town's 11th - century bridge, be sure to take in the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes, the church of Sant Vicenç and the Jewish Quarter.

For centuries, Harkleroad said, monks in monasteries cared for fragile books and labored making copies of the manuscripts by hand.

An American by birth, Father Christodoulos spent many years in a monastery on the island of Rhodes in Greece.

Failing a hospitality exchange, consider staying in a monastery for accommodation which is a little further off the beaten path — this kind of accommodation is usually pretty basic with just a bed and a desk, and bread and butter for breakfast, though cost wise will start from around $ 50 per person for private accommodation or around half that for a dorm.

- century bridge, be sure to take in the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes, the church of Sant Vicenç and the Jewish Quarter.

He was a traveled man who had visited India and Ethiopia; and finally he lived in a monastery at Alexandria, which was then a great centre of culture.

Tibetan Terriers are highly intelligent, sensitive, loyal devoted and affectionate dogs who are said to originate in the Lost Valley of Tibet, where they were bred and raised in the monasteries by lamas almost 2,000 years ago.

Yet he had his problems as several persons at once clamored for pancakes in his monastery kitchen.

The reason why women are not allowed in the monasteries is because they do not want to let their own souls lust and therefore hurting themselves and the women they lust after.

Much of his writing was done in the monastery where he had administrative duties and while in exile on the Continent because of his unwillingness to submit, as Archbishop of Canterbury, to the demands of the English Kings William II and Henry I.

Although Kurti died in 1998, the motley group continues to meet every few years to trade information, ideas, and occasional insults, share a few late - night glasses of the local marsala, improvise a test kitchen in a monastery courtyard, and form the foundations for a truly modern cuisine.

Previously, travelers had the chance to sleep in the monastery at the top which added to the allure of the entire trip but reports have said that this is no longer permitted so make sure you double check with the locals to get confirmation if your plans include an overnight trip.

«The Buddhist Sanskrit texts from 12th century from Nepal and Eastern India, with beautiful illuminations done in the monasteries particularly stand out.»

It was ostensibly a translation of an ancient manuscript discovered in a monastery in Tibet, telling of travel, study, and preaching by Jesus in India and Persia.

(Acts 1:8) Thus, Jesus true disciples have taken the «good news of the kingdom» to the «most distant part of the earth», not sitting in some monastery.

Should the autographs of a group of NT books, for example, someday be found hidden in a monastery wall, and those authograps be found to differ significantly from what we find in our Bibles, my faith would not be affected.

Let yourself be all of the mother that you are — when you yell or get frustrated, when you ask forgiveness, when you feel your heart straining against your rib cage, all because of how he looks asleep in your arms, all because of the sound of childish voices laughing outside, all because of the quiet nights in the monastery of the baby's room, just rocking in a time outside of time, it's all real and it's all you and it's all okay.

Part - time mystics don't exist only in monasteries, we're hiding in all walks of life and the Spirit often speaks as clearly in our betwixt moments.

There are a lot of factors that show up and I don't know about you but if I had to read one more article that talks about how a writer had taken three months off in a cabin in the woods or how they required zero interruptions or had a solitary fellowship or months in a monastery, I was ready to cry.

Charges of personal corruption were added — for example, that «mistresses are kept in the monasteries.»

The last few monks retreat in monasteries, the vigilant in town consult well - thumbed survival guides, and all the caged canaries left in the mines have recently succumbed.

When Columbus brought chile peppers to Europe from the Caribbean after his second voyage in 1493, they were first grown in monastery gardens in Spain and Portugual as curiosities.

He's logged 10,000 + hours in mindfulness training over 25 years, including 8 years in monasteries around the world.

Failing a hospitality exchange, consider staying in a monastery for accommodation which is a little further off the beaten path.

As time passed, others in the monastery discerned that there was something special about this man.

A poultice of garlic could have a natural antibiotic effect, and a rosehip tincture could deliver a whopping dose of vitamin C. Knowledge of herbs came both from the classical sources preserved and studied in monasteries (sources like the Greek Dioscorides herbal encyclopedia, De Materia Medica) and from local herbariums.

Later, he wrote to a former student that at the Christmas celebration in the monastery, part of his book Discipleship had been read aloud.

When I visited in 2012, ninety nuns, assisted by two hundred members of the lay sisterhood, were providing work and housing to more than 1,700 men, many of whom labor in the monastery's fields and raise food for the St. Elizabeth community and for sale.

The «Bible» was written by a bunch of hermit priests sitting locked away in some monastery high on herbs, mushrooms, and / or opium writing down what the crooked Popes in Rome wanted them to write.

The aging Brossard has established a cautious routine, staying a couple of weeks in an abbey here, a couple of weeks in a monastery there, sheltered from the public eye.

A burial slab in the monastery at Krakow thrust at passers - by the sculpture of a skull, around which ran in archaic lettering: Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi: «Today me, tomorrow you.»

Sinaiticus, discovered in separate sheets in the monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai between 1844 and 1859, is now in the British Museum, having been purchased from Russia in 1933.

They live in their monasteries praying, studying bible, growing plants and making everything they need and selling some of those to buy things they can not make.

It seemed that the equipment newly installed in the monastery kitchen was required by contract to be regularly serviced by the company.

Even in a monastery one has to scream No to the conglomeration of pre-Vatican II trivialities that seem to hang on in the ecclesial body like so many forms of staph become immune to penicillin.

However, screaming in the monastery silence is not looked upon favorably, and done too often will result in a forced trip to see my psychiatrist friend with our roles reversed.

But we take our vans up there, I preach at the kids, give them some activities, preach some more, let them «discuss,» and then take them to noontime Mass in the monastery chapel.

The lords of the manor and the bishops, abbots and priors in the monasteries were the leaders of medieval society.

The word «Conference» has a peculiar meaning in a monastery, derived from the famous «Conferences» of St John Cassian, which St Benedict directed should be read regularly to his monks.

He gave orders that «in each bishopric and in each monastery let the psalms, the notes, the chant, calculation and grammar be taught and carefully corrected books be available».6 He also set up a school at his palace at Aachen and imported talent from different parts of Europe, including Alcuin (c.735 - 804), who had been master of the school at York, and the grammarian Paul the Deacon (c.120 - c. 800) from Italy.

Having thought on the religious in monasteries, that they forsook all earthly things by being shut up in a cloister, and the love of themselves by subjecting of their wills, she asked leave of her father to enter into a cloister of the barefoot Carmelites, but he would not permit it, saying he would rather see her laid in her grave.

This seemed to her a great cruelty, for she thought to find in the cloister the true Christians she had been seeking, but she found afterwards that he knew the cloisters better than she; for after he had forbidden her, and told her he would never permit her to be a religious, nor give her any money to enter there, yet she went to Father Laurens, the Director, and offered to serve in the monastery and work hard for her bread, and be content with little, if he would receive her.

One was William Davies, or Brother Marcus, who was imprisoned in a monastery granary for refusing to obey rules on abstaining from alcohol.