Sentences with phrase «in the monastery of»

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.

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.

In the first half of the tenth century a revival centered in the monastery of Cluny, north of Lyons.

Both Tibetan spaniels and Pekingese are ancient dog breeds that originated some 2,000 years ago in the monasteries of Tibet and China.

The cats took residence in the monastery of the Carthusian monks during the 17th century.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

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.

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.

As an indication of the seriousness of the matter, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 decreed that violators of the seal of confession should be «deposed from the priestly office» and then «consigned to a closed monastery for perpetual penance.»

(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.

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.»

For instance, Chapter 15 on the laity begins with a broad discussion about how the Church grew, covering the establishment of monasteries and convents, Mass in Latin, the removal of rood screens and the history of the Reformation; while Chapter 16, on Our Lady, goes through the titles given to her, in order to answer criticisms that these titles and honours can not be supported by Scripture.

However, this decay in devotion was usually after the initial hardships of breaking ground for the faith and founding the monastery had passed.

Eyes open, shoulder - checking, in - the - midst - of - life prayers are just as meaningful and powerful, I think, as any in a church altar call or a monastery.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Many inside the Church have lost sight of it too, and it has had a catastrophic effect in our seminaries, our convents, our monasteries, our parishes and our families.

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

In the 20th century all these communities save the Greek fell prey to communist governments, which, like the Turks before them, closed the monasteries and made museums of churches.

Some of them were attracted by the opportunity for adventure or were moved by dissatisfaction with their lot in the parent monastery.

Only a handful live in complete solitude (and even then, they end up returning to the monastery most of the time).

The group was travelling from Beni Suef province to the remote monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Maghagha when gunman opened fire on their vehicle approximately 140 miles south of Cairo.

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.

More than 20 are dead — many of them reportedly children — in a Friday attack in Egypt on two buses and a truck that were transporting Coptic Christians to a monastery.

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.

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.

(CNN)- It was two years in the making for a television crew to get access inside one of the holiest sites of the Greek Orthodox world, the monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece.