Sentences with phrase «live in a monastery»

But don't assume monks who live in monasteries and dedicate their lives to prayer aren't feeling pressure in this economy.

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.

All his life in the monastery, Merton had been dogged by stories that he had abandoned his vocation or run off with some woman.

He sat down and wrote to the Elector: «I am now living in this monastery alone except for the Prior (not counting some who were exiled by the enemies of the Gospel whom we lodge here temporarily out of Christian love).

Francis Coquelin getting so thoroughly runaround by Andres Iniesta and Ivan Rakitic that he decides to give up this football lark and pursue his goal of living in a monastery?

You don't need to live in a monastery to slow down and savour every bite of your meal.

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.

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

In modern times, living a settled life in a monastery setting has become the most common lifestyle for Buddhist monks and nuns across the globe.

Sharon has published one book, titled Initiation, about her life experiences living in a monastery under the tutelage of a Buddhist teacher.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In effect, claims Boulton, he did not do away with the monastic lifestyle; he simply democratized the monastery to include «the whole city... [and] each disciple's whole life.»

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.

What world do you live in, some cloistered monastery where the modern world is shut out?

And in Christianity during the Middle Ages, groups like the Beguines and the followers of Francis showed that the spiritual life need not be confined to the monastery and the cloister but could be lived in the world.

In that sense the observance of the monastery of Cluny in the 12th century sounds suspiciously like a spiritual version of life on a modern assembly linIn that sense the observance of the monastery of Cluny in the 12th century sounds suspiciously like a spiritual version of life on a modern assembly linin the 12th century sounds suspiciously like a spiritual version of life on a modern assembly line.

It was not simply a question of more men going into the monastery (Cistercian monasteries did experience a phenomenal growth in that period), but the avant - garde journals of the day were filled with articles about liturgical prayer, Gregorian chant and experiments in community living.

The author addresses this in her introduction, stressing that this work will focus instead on «those around her who would describe themselves as «lesser souls» compared to Therese, but who nevertheless put into practice her «Little Way», those who were part of her life, both in her family and in the monastery.

I love you in all the places I find you — cathedrals and living rooms, monasteries and megachurches, school gymnasiums and warehouses.

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

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.

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.

The life of a disciple is to be lived in the world against its hostility not in the favored atmosphere of a friendly monastery.

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.

I use the word contemplative with considerable apprehension, fearing that you will associate it with the kind of living that's done best in monasteries or in mountain retreats or in desert caves.

As a longtime writer and associate of an Episcopal monastery, John Backman (www.dialogueventure.com) has published articles in many Christian publications, including Next - Wave, Episcopal Life and The Living Church.

He was strongly attracted to the ascetic life, was a warm admirer of Benedict of Nursia and wrote a life of that saint, devoted his inherited wealth to founding six monasteries in Sicily, and turned over the family mansion in Rome to a monastic community.

From the monasteries many went forth, some as individuals to live as hermits, and others in groups, often of twelve with a leader in imitation of the Apostles and Christ.

With rare exceptions, as they grew older monasteries lost the initial dedication which had brought them into existence and in their common life became comfortable and routine or worse.

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.

Monks, while holding hands, would chant and sing, moving through a symbolic «maze of life» in the monastery or sanctuary.

The monastery had given him a structured life and daily purpose, which saved him in a time of listlessness and depression but did not require the worship of any other god.

«Monk» was generally used for members of the older orders using the Rule of St Benedict sixth century AD) who remained in the same monastery for life and were broadly «contemplatives».

Maximus then lived in a series of monasteries being forced to move by the invading Turks.

Upon his conversion, Charles de Foucauld — a French monk and hermit — was ready to live all - out for God in some monastery or other.

«But it has affected the vast majority of people who still go to church, who visit the monasteries, and they still carry on their lives daily, knowing they are a greater, in the eyes of some, target.»

But Moutiers began life in the fifth century as a settlement huddled around a monastery, and in the ninth century Charlemagne made it one of the six capitals of his Holy Roman Empire.

From September 1937 until January 1938, he lived in Buddhist monasteries and temples in the Wutai Mountains.

Roberto Manescalchi, of the Italian city's Military Institute of Geography, and two art historians there speculate that Leonardo lived, painted, and conducted dissections in the rooms, which were long ago divided between the institute and a neighboring monastery.

«The well - preserved ruins of the monastery complex permit numerous conclusions regarding life and the culture in this region between Late Antiquity and the time of the crusaders,» according to Prof. Winter.

I'm going to assume that because I haven't lived a super clean life in an organic monastery high in the mountains, that I've accumulated the normal amount of toxins that inhibit performance that people living in cities do.

Hanh, who lives in Blue Cliff's sister monastery in France, Plum Village, cut back on his traveling after a stroke in 2014, but his East Coast disciples are steeped in his teachings and mindfulness practices.