Sentences with phrase «in a monastery at»

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.»

«To the godly and sincere Friar Georg Spenlein, Augustinian Eremite in the monastery at Memmingen, my dear friend in the Lord... I should like to know whether your soul, tired of its own righteousness, is learning to be revived by and to trust in the righteousness of Christ.»

Not exact matches

In Greece, for example, he visits an isolated monastery whose inhabitants spun a rediscovered 14th - century deed for a nearby lake into a multi-billion-dollar commercial real estate empire, at the expense of a befuddled Greek government.

«At one point I was thinking about going to Japan and trying to get into the Eihei - ji monastery, but my spiritual adviser urged me to stay here (in California).»

«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.

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

Today the reopened monastery is renowned for its outstanding choirs (one sang the national anthem at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi), entrepreneurial spirit, and close relations with President Putin.

For three months during the early years of World War II, from November 1940 through February 1941, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945) lived at Ettal, in a historic Benedictine monastery that is still a tourist attraction today.

«He has some German sisters» - nuns - «who cared for him in his domestic needs at the Apostolic Palace and they're apparently moving with him to this monastery.

In the Holy Roman Empire, beer lover Charlemagne promoted improvements in brewing at monasteries throughout the empire, gradually making the church the primary wholesaler of beer in societIn the Holy Roman Empire, beer lover Charlemagne promoted improvements in brewing at monasteries throughout the empire, gradually making the church the primary wholesaler of beer in societin brewing at monasteries throughout the empire, gradually making the church the primary wholesaler of beer in societin society.

For the contemplative, prayer is her work, essential as it is, and she is often engaged in hospitality at her monastery.

Huffington Post: «Beyond the Robe»: New Generation of Buddhist Monks Embraces Science Recently, the Dalai Lama addressed a luncheon gathering at my home in Boston and announced a decision by the leaders of the monasteries to make the study of Western science part of the core curriculum required of all monastic scholars in the Gelug tradition.

Byzantium at its most sublime was a wedding of spirit, light, form and flesh still observable in old ikons and fragments of mosaics scattered throughout Asia Minor; in the architecture of Hagia Sophia and the monasteries of Mount Athos, Mar Saba and St. Catherine; and in the thoughts of the Eastern church fathers, Athanasius, Irenaeus and the Cappadocians.

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.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

Brother John is a young monk who joined the monastery during his years at Trinity University in San Antonio.

In modern history the work ethic was first given a great impetus by the Protestant Reformation, in which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifIn modern history the work ethic was first given a great impetus by the Protestant Reformation, in which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin working at one's job in everyday lifin everyday life.

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.

A friend long active in men's groups has always resisted taking even a day's retreat at a Benedictine monastery in northern New Mexico.

Certainly, the youthful Jesus is known to have studied at a celebrated Buddhist monastery in India.

Major icons of the transfiguration, moreover, such as the sixth - century mosaics in the apse of the monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai and St. Apollinaris Church in Ravenna, or the 14th - century icons of Andrei Rublev and Theophane the Greek, did not just reflect but substantially contributed to the development of Byzantine theology.

If Madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorism, then its no differentwhen it comes down to child molestation as reported at no less than 25 different occasions from abbots, monasteries and churches around the world in the past decade.

It was discovered by a German scholar Tisendorf in 1856 at an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Sinai.

This year i have the privilege to celebrate Christmas once more at a small monastery in a lovely lake region of my native Austria.

James would thrive at a 10,000 - person worship service in a stadium; I'd prefer a Benedictine monastery with twelve monks in brown robes.

Here the lay followers of the Buddhist monastic order, the Samgha, may gather in groups to perform meritorious rituals of devotion at the monastery, but their participation is individual and limited, unlike that of the congregation of monks whose corporate life they support.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

It surely can't be entirely coincidence that shortly after these lectures were published the Catholic Liturgical Movement began to experience its first stirrings in the Benedictine monastery at Maria Laach in Germany.

Division of males and females may be appropriate at a monastery, but not in a residence for college students.

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.

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.

Each believes they have finally found their soulmate in the other and celebrate their days at the medieval Benedictine monastery Mont Saint - Michel, the Wonder of the title, «invigorated by» (in the words of the film's production notes) «feelings of being newly in love.»

They will burn at the stake any person who dares to defy the dogma handed down to them by lonely monks sequestered in monasteries.

They make about 21,000 pounds of cheese each year, which they sell at the monastery, via mail order and at local grocery stores in Charlottesville.

I had studied with the Eastern Orthodox church for some decades, and visited its monasteries on Mount Athos, in Constantinople, in the Balkans, and in Russia from Kiev up to the Valamo Monastery at Lake Ladoga.

At a Romanian monastery in 2005, a woman insulted a priest in front of his congregation, which led him to decree her possessed.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

Written in haste from the monastery, at noon, the day after the Nativity, 1516.

He was reassigned to Erfurt, and following a trip to Rome on monastery business, was elected a sub-prior in the Augustinian order and awarded the doctorate in theology at the early age of twenty - eight.

Study, especially study of the Bible, was a pleasure to him: «At first, in the monastery, I devoured the Bible.»

Edith Stein spent Holy Week and Easter Sunday in 1928 at the Benedictine monastery of Beuron.

«In the Middle Ages, colleges like those at Oxford looked like monasteries because the Establishment was theocratic; today, our high schools look like factories and regiment students like the labor force because the Establishment is commercial and industrial» («Listening to Architecture,» 1969, pp. 4 - 5).

Some Americans dreamed of missionary communities on the model of early medieval or Celtic missionary monasteries, but none of these survived as such — Bishop Ives» Order of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, broke up, and the mission begun at Nashotah, Wisconsin, in 1842 continued only as a seminary.

In 2017, there were numerous violent attacks across Egypt, including at Easter when 49 people were killed in two church bombings and in May when Islamic extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in Upper Egypt, killing 2In 2017, there were numerous violent attacks across Egypt, including at Easter when 49 people were killed in two church bombings and in May when Islamic extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in Upper Egypt, killing 2in two church bombings and in May when Islamic extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in Upper Egypt, killing 2in May when Islamic extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in Upper Egypt, killing 2in Upper Egypt, killing 29.

Even though Buddhist monks were starting to cultivate potatoes at their monasteries in Nepal and neighboring Bhutan in the 1700s, potatoes never really caught on until almost 150 years later, when the government of Nepal stepped in with some support from the Indian government.

It has been at least 10 years since someone screamed and dropped their groceries in the street at the sight of me because they had erroneously been led to believe I was dead or in a Tibetan monastery.

«He was the only breadwinner in the family,» said 17 - year - old Phinjum Sherpa, as she waited for the body of her uncle, Tenji Sherpa, at a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu.

The findings resemble real - world clustering behavior among nearly homogeneous groups: Tanzanian hunter - gatherers, executive MBAs at a mixer, and monks in a monastery.

Work on an archaeological park is in progress which is to make the outstanding temple complex and the monastery ruins accessible to the public at large.

The Normans established scriptoriums in many monasteries in the 11th century, and their appetite for animal skins must have had a «huge impact» on the animals raised, notes Naomi Sykes, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.