Sentences with phrase «living as a monk»

Fred is a devout Hindu in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition who lived as a monk and priest for five years.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

Life as a railway signaller turns out to be more monkish than life as a monk, especially on night shifts.

During his time in jail, his approach to life changed — leading him to live as a monk for three years and then share his experiences with the world (chronicled in his popular book, Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons From a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom).

It helps to remember that the man with whom you are intimately involved in your other life is not living as a monk with his wife.

The story finds MacGruber living as a monk in Ecuador when he is pulled out of retirement by the U.S. military.

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Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

Monks and nuns don't get busted and they live concecrated lives as well.

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to EuMonks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Eumonks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

The inhabitants live as secular desert monks, solemnly awaiting the end in cloistered silence.

It almost seems as if the fifth - century monk, Pelagius, had come back to life.

A third type of monasticism, known as the coenobitic (from the Greek «for living together»), provides for monks to live together in a community with rules and a head monk.

Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits.»

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

Some Christians gave up all their possessions and lived as hermits, and later as monks.

The same kind of monks that lived 1700 years ago, who considered women, unclean and unworthy, as they do today.

He lived as a group monk, prayed his office and practiced penance, and did all the things he was supposed to do.

Dr. Podles wants to make much of the warrior motif in the era of «heroic Christianity,» and he claims that the Benedictine monks were properly manly because they saw the spiritual life as a struggle with Satan while twelfth - century Cistercians and women saw it as an erotic submission to Jesus the bridegroom.

As St Francis de Sales tellsus, it is counter-productive for a lay person to try to live like a monk, but Catholic faith and spirituality is a unity centred on the mystery of Christ handed on to us in Sacred Scripture and Tradition.

Most of its hierarchy, as well as thousands of parish clergy, monks and nuns lost their liberty, and many lost their lives.

Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thoughtby rachel fulton browncolumbia, 656 pages, $ 75 In thirteenth - century France there lived a monk who served as confessor for many townspeople, including a beautiful married woman.

After the early experiments by individual persons, the group life of special dedication that we know as monasticism began to grow; so that nearly every geographical area had both local churches for people in general and special Christian communities for monks.

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.

As a young monk Martin Luther wrestled with this question year after year until he finally wrung from scripture his answer: Put your whole trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and you will have eternal lifAs a young monk Martin Luther wrestled with this question year after year until he finally wrung from scripture his answer: Put your whole trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and you will have eternal lifas your Savior and you will have eternal life.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

Many of us can think of monks and nuns (as well as of others who are not vocationally celibate but nonetheless actually so) who have been enabled to live fully and healthily, rechanneling their sexual drive toward other modes of expression that can make them loving, concerned, caring, and deeply devoted and committed people.

The material contained in the latest collection of Dom Hugh's writings is, as its title «Monastic Markers on the Christian Way» suggests, primarily aimed at building up the lives of the monks in his care, but the practical insights into living the Christian life contained here have a wider relevance for all who search for deeper communion with the mystery of God.

Would you be so critical of a monk from Tibet living his lonely life as a Preacher from South Carolina?

But neither More's relatively enlightened Catholicism, nor Erasmus's quiet following of the gospel, both within the bounds of the old institution, measured up to the excitement being felt by so many men and women as they read the New Testament, brooded on it, compared it with the teaching and life - style of the monks, nuns and priests they knew.

As I metioned, the Beowulf epic was rather clumsily «christianized» by whichever monk liked it enough to write it down — and yet still, neither grendels nor dragons exist in real life.

Evagrius Ponticus (d. 399), who systematized the thought of Clement of Alexandria, of Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers, as it applied to the monastic life, distinguished between the «righteous» of the organized church and the «perfect,» or «philosophers,» i.e., the monks and hermits of the monastery and the cell.

I sympathize: There's a letter from St. Jerome, one of the fathers of the desert, who gave up a prosperous live in Rome to live strictly as a monk in Bethlehem.

I still love love love their regular Greek yogurt as well, but this has a substantially lower sugar content (since it's sweetened with stevia and monk root), so it makes me feel better about my life choices haha.

From living as a celibate monk and working as a marriage counselor, to everything else in between, each moment of Gray's life has shaped his impressive career.

After the idealistic monk challenged the Vatican's salvation - at - a-profit policies, he was forced to live as an outlaw with a bounty on his head.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

Hawke decided to make the film after receiving some life - altering advice from Bernstein at a gathering, as if compelled to share his good fortune with the world, and that generosity of spirit courses through a piece that looks for wisdom, not pathology, in its subject's hermetic existence (57 years alone in the same New York apartment) and monk - like devotion to music.

The film is wonderfully acted by all four leads, with Spader particularly standing out as the sexless monk, who comes into the trio's lives and changes them profoundly forever.

These are universally popular as they enable learners to experience life as royals, knights, monks, soldiers and servants or become history, maths, art or even garden detectives at actual Roman, medieval, Tudor and Victorian sites.

The monk practising the debate is immersed, in his everyday life of Buddhist and as a tibetan, in a cultural universe filled with songs, music and dances crowned, in a singular relationship to gods whom he knows how he has invented to help him to represent itself and to live the logic of the contradictory which makes the phenomena.

Course contents include lessons on: - Buddhism as a World Religion - The Life of The Buddha - The Four Noble Truths - The Eightfold Path - The Three Jewels - The Three Marks of Existence & «Ultimate Truths» - A lesson about Meditation (with instructions)- The Life of Buddhist Monks - Buddhist Attitudes to Money - Buddhist Views on the Afterlife The attached image features sample slides and activities from the presentation and hopefully represents the vibrant, professional and clear style it's creator was aiming for.

As Ehwa moves from the open curiosity of childhood that fixates on body parts to the mysteries of attraction and her own heartbreak, she and her mother navigate common issues that range from defending one's feelings from bullies (little boys in Ehwa's life; gossipy men in her mother's) to mutual attraction (a young monk and a visiting boy from a more monied class for Ehwa; an itinerant painter / scholar for her mother).

As part of this rite of passage he must tell his life's story to an ancient monk who listens impassively throughout.

What he thinks about instead, as they travel for hours deep into the Northern California wilderness, is that the face of one of his abductors belongs to his own son, Glenn — long estranged and living (the last Monks knew) on the streets of Seattle.

Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx.

«It was probably being used as a bookmark,» says Father David Barry, a monk who has lived at New Norcia, north of Perth, for 60 years.

It is a wonderful attribute, considering their past as companions to monks living in mountainous monasteries.

Buddhism plays a large role in the everyday life of its people and it is not uncommon for young men to spend a short period of time in a temple as monks.

One of only two mammals endemic to Hawaii (the second being the Hawaiian bat), the Hawaiian monk seal is often referred to as a «living fossil.»