Sentences with phrase «labor in the monastery»

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Fortunately, this is realized today, and most of the followers of the «religious life» in convents and monasteries and similar communities have labored in recent years for a considerable relaxation, but without giving up their general agreement on basic principles.

Among the old channels were monasteries which held to their original ideals and bishops and parish clergy who labored conscientiously to fulfill what was rightly expected of men in their posts.

«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).

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