Sentences with phrase «monks giving»

@lookingforthemagic captures a beautiful shot of Buddhist Tibetan monks giving sand from their mandala to the ocean as a blessing.

But becoming a monk gave him what he saw as a golden opportunity: he could make himself more attractive to God and so — hopefully — earn his love.

Monks gave their lives to the painstaking process of copying one page of a manuscript after another, until finally another «book» was completed for religious leaders.

now pod is going in jan what the hell with wenger he destroyed so many players and one thing i can not understand why santi played every game for 90 min he is out of form but still our old monk gave him chance in front of pod and rosciky

Monks gave Tibetan Terriers as blessings of Good Fortune.

Not exact matches

On any given day at Mass with the monks here in Atchison, you'll hear commemorations of saints as well as campus milestones and the death anniversaries of confreres from the 150 years of the college.

They added that the monks do not make it for profit but just to make a living and any profit is given to charity.

Monks, it will be remembered, were Christians who, at least in theory, had given themselves fully to the commands of Jesus.

(c) 5:82 [and] thou wilt surely find that, of all people, they who say, «Behold, we are Christians,» come closest to feeling affection for those who believe [in this divine writ]: this is so because there are priests and monks among them, and because these are not given to arrogance.

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

The absence of women — as well as of many other things — gives the monks more freedom to devote themselves more fully to prayer, including for those denied entrance to their monasteries and lands (there are women's monasteries, by the way, closed to men for the same reason).

It speaks to the satisfactions I've found recently through intentional encounters with the unscreened world: in helping my neighbor load up his baby pigs; putting my phone in a tray as I come through the front door so that I remember to give my kids my whole self; observing the way the Benedictine monks on the hill near my home bow in greeting one another and the way their eyes pierce me — greeting me, the stranger, as a guest, as Christ.

This caused disloyal people to cut off their hair, (to become monks and nuns), and to give only second place to their prince and to their parents.

I note that the researcher in the article which you cited above was careful to choose Buddhist monks for his study and not just anyone as if he did the latter, there would be the possibility that he would encounter persons like myself whose minds dissociate during intense / deep meditation given that the biology of such persons predisposes them to this:

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

Fr Hugh Gilbert is Abbot of Pluscarden Abbey, and his book is a wonderful compilation of homilies and conferences he has given his monks since 2000.

Here again, as in the case of the monk - missionaries of the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, it was chiefly those who were most earnestly devoted to the faith who offered themselves as missionaries and gave to the support of the societies.

Like the young Luther, who gave up studying law to become a monk in hopes of finding God's favor, this young man has tried his best to please God.

The assignment we gave a group of three monks was to imagine a scenario and then describe how the different human organ systems might respond to that scenario.

They should give up on politics and become a priest or pastor or monk, or whatever.

i wanted to be like some kind of cool monk who could get his face bashed in and then rise from the floor to give a calm and witty monoluge that that would slay the anger of my oponent and touch him with the love of god.

Dorotheos said that the Pharisee was doing the right thing when he thanked God for giving him the ability to do good — as should they (the monks) themselves.

As Rogers notes, monks learn this lesson directly: By giving up eros for the love of God (agape).

True to its Byzantine tradition, Russian Christianity gave prominence to monasticism, but, somewhat differently from the Byzantine monasticism with its aloofness from the world, due in part to the initiative of Theodosius many Russian monasteries served the sick and the poor, and the monks were guides and confessors to the rank and file of the laity.

Five days later, he wrote to Spalatin: «Good Lord, will our people at Wittenberg give wives even to the monks?

Andy recovered from his fear of heaven after he had a dream, on Epiphany 1999, of which I give his verbatim account: «I dreamed I was with all the nuns and monks and there were nice animals there too.

If through my inexperience I have either not given the proper titles to some, or have offended in some manner against customs and court etiquette, I ask you kindly to pardon me, as a man accustomed not to courts but to the cells of monks.

Ah, but I know that if he did, he would give me my vocation to be a monk.

Since the monks had been about to throw it away, they were willing to give it to him.

Following the rules for monks is a corresponding section which gives rules for the nuns, or Bhikkhunis.

Also known as luo han guo, which means monk fruit in Chinese — it is said to have been first discovered and used by Chinese monks in the Guilin region where Layn is headquartered - the low calorie, natural sweetener could give stevia a run for its money.

Given that mogrosides in monk fruit have been studied for their antioxidant characteristics, there has been some promising cancer - related research in which mogrosides have demonstrated anti-cancer effects.

he might be busy giving a seminar on spiritual healing to buddhist monks in nepal.

The process of even finding a site for a new stadium has been long and laborious, but between the two Wembley finals last season, the go - ahead for a new ground at the out - of - town site at Monks Cross — where the city's professional Rugby League side, the Knights, play — was finally given and work is expected to begin shortly with the plan to be in it for the start of the 2013 - 14 season.

It's most generous of you to give the hard working monks some time off but I would suggest double flagellation when they return — don't want them getting above their station

ned, those old directions like «up» give me trouble, i can imagine the monks figure them out pretty well...

Top stuff Ned Although i don't know where you find the time for all this research, given all the Monkish things Monks get up to.

By resigning, he showed that it was possible to give up everything, as Christian monks and ascetics have always insisted: not a lesson that those who enjoyed the material benefits of the papacy (notably his successor Boniface VIII, who tried to erase Celestine's memory) wanted to disseminate.

Number of groups are exempt from giving this like monks, poor, women, old people etc..

A better estimate might give him a clue to the monks» status: High - status medieval men buried in one churchyard in northern Italy averaged 171 cm, while lower status men averaged 164 cm, according to a study he published in 2011 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

(It might help to pretend you are a barber giving a monk his tonsure.)

The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.

All this is even more depressing given how special monk seals are.

According to the FDA, monk fruit extract can taste up to 250 times sweeter than standard table sugar — thanks to chemical compounds called mogrosides, which give the fruit its characteristic sweetness.

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.

The vanilla bean is a perfect complement to the matcha and the monk fruit gives it just a touch of sweetness.

These cookies are made with our proprietary sweetening blend of erythritol and monk fruit extract, giving you the best of both worlds: the baking benefits of sugar alcohols but in reduced quantities because of the added benefit of a high intensity sweetener without the aftertaste!

Hi Sonia, if you can get Swerve or monk fruit sweetener such as Lakanto, give it a go.

We were given a history lesson on the origins of beer, learning that Monks were the first professional brewers - they were the first to use hops and sell to thirsty travellers and pilgrims.

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