Sentences with phrase «in a monastery in»

My guess is that many of them still struggle with lust, that is why they are in the monastery in the first place: to heal.

In our monastery in Wittenberg I heard him distinctly.

Codex Amiatinus was made in a monastery in Wearmouth - Jarrow in Northumbria, in the early 8th Century.

Jonathan Draper writes (Gospel Perspectives, v. 5, p. 269): Since it was discovered in a monastery in Constantinople and published

Filmed over three years, in their monastery in rural France and on the road in the USA, this visceral film is a meditation on a community grappling with existential questions and the everyday routine of monastic life.

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.

St. Bernards were first bred in a monastery in Switzerland, called the St. Bernard Monastery, in order to guard the sanctuary.

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

Or take a tour of drive to Valldemosa, where Chopin and Georges Sand wintered in the monastery in the 1830s.

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.

Ferriss told us that he used to read passages about compassion by Buddhist writers and think, «OK, if you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving / kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.»

Want to stay in a converted monastery on the Amalfi coast?

I was raised in the shadow of a Benedictine monastery in the 1960's.

NYT: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.

Today monasteries and lay sisterhoods and brotherhoods play an especially important role in providing spiritual and physical care to Russia's sick, abandoned, incarcerated, and unemployed.

Israeli police are investigating after a monastery in Jerusalem was vandalised with hate speech calling for the death of Christians.

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

Israeli police are investigating after a monastery in Jerusalem was vandalised with hate speech calling... More

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

Almost every parish and monastery in Russia has identified its new martyrs.

In 1819, when the governor - general of Petersburg learned that officers of the imperial guards were castrating themselves, he exiled Selivanov to a monastery for life.

Sergius Lavra (a lavra is a major monastery — only four monasteries in Russia have that designation), north of Moscow, is perhaps Russia's most famous pilgrimage site.

It was one of more than 800 monasteries closed by Henry VIII but the ruins later became a centre for the Picturesque art movement in the 18th century.

In my youth I made the chance discovery, via the Lutherans, of the ancient Daily Office, associated with the early monasteries and prescribed in St. Benedict's RulIn my youth I made the chance discovery, via the Lutherans, of the ancient Daily Office, associated with the early monasteries and prescribed in St. Benedict's Rulin St. Benedict's Rule.

Well, I'll see if I can get the brothers down in the store to send you a little book about the monastery here.

In 1918 Elizabeth was executed by the Bolsheviks, and in the 1920s her monastery was closed, and its church was converted into a movie theateIn 1918 Elizabeth was executed by the Bolsheviks, and in the 1920s her monastery was closed, and its church was converted into a movie theatein the 1920s her monastery was closed, and its church was converted into a movie theater.

In 1924 the Soviets transformed the monastery complex into the first gulag.

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.

Her example of power and beauty humbling themselves to care for society's marginalized again guides ministry in her reopened monastery.

I know of a very popular monastery in Germany that does for - profit meditation seminars.

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.

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.

«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.

They were university students, and I remember reading in 1957, my first year as a university student, a news report that the son of Hermann Goering had entered a cloistered monastery.

Isaias kept the wealth, built a monastery, took in some brothers, and welcomed the poor, setting three or four tables on Saturday and Sunday.

In the hundred years between 850 and 950, Benedictine monks were driven out of ancient monasteries, the Papal States were overrun, and Muslim pirate bases were established along the coast of northern Italy and southern France, from which attacks on the deep inland were launched.

Frans van der Lugt, who cared for disabled children of all faiths and refused to leave them when the war started, was dragged from his monastery in Homs, and beaten, shot, and left to die in the street.

Lets not forget the book «The Bible Code» also said 2006... so I mean pardon me if I do nt give away everything I own and hide in a monastery.

He said that since the play was written by monks in a seventeenth - century monastery, it was inconceivable that the authors could have harbored anti-Semitic feelings, and he pointed out that the text has not been revised since 1860.

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.

We're happy to live in a free and prosperous country and not in an Aristotelian polis or a medieval village or even in a Benedictine 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.

Alisdair MacIntyre, who is a fairly transparent inspiration for this idea, suggested we retreat from modern institutions into small monastery - like communities in order to rebuild the moral foundation of character — an integrated set of beliefs and morality — that modernity has undermined.

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.

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

Some brews today — such as Weihenstephan (founded 1040 AD) and Leffe (1240 AD)-- originated in medieval monasteries.

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.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.