Sentences with phrase «only in monasteries»

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.

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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.

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

The only way to escape is to be a monk in a monastery only if you don't speak to one another to make it work.

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).

Horn in an Italian papal state in 1225, Aquinas was shipped off by his family to a nearby monastery when he was only five years of age.

He said that after the Buddhist had been in the monastery for about a month, he had only one question.

This was so in China and in Arabia, and Mingana points Out that in the fourth century «the way to India was not only strewn with bishoprics, but also with monasteries.»

When he got back to the monastery, his fellow monks asked what he had read in Scripture which had offended him so much to cause him to sell his only Bible.

Only in that moment of the afternoon sun in Ladkh, as he abandoned thought of hurrying on to the monastery, did he receive back something he had unconsciously offered.

Some Americans dreamed of missionary communities on the model of early medieval or Celtic missionary monasteries, but none of these survived as such — Bishop Ives» Order of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, broke up, and the mission begun at Nashotah, Wisconsin, in 1842 continued only as a seminary.

Modeled after a Greek monastery, Sterling Vineyards was the first winery ever built with the visitor in mind and the only winery in the world with an aerial tram (the winery sits 300 feet above the valley floor where visitors take the tram to access the top quality Bordeaux varietals and majestic 360 degree views of Napa Valley).

«He was the only breadwinner in the family,» said 17 - year - old Phinjum Sherpa, as she waited for the body of her uncle, Tenji Sherpa, at a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu.

When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps.

Although breeding occurred in the villages, the best breedings were products of the monasteries, which usually bred only the smallest specimens.

The monks in the monasteries valued the Tibetan Terrier as a holy dog or good luck dog, never selling the animal but only giving it as a holy gift to those who were deserving.

As this was not possible in Barcelona, we only purchased our round - trip ticket to Montserrat monastery.

Housed in a 13th - century monastery, which once was home to Cistercians monks and Cappuccini friars, the Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi is perched on a cliff top high above sea level with spectacular views of Amalfi and the Mediterranean Coast and only steps away from the historic city center and the harbor of Amalfi.

Located up a headland only a few minute's walk from historical centre, the main pedestrian street «Corso Umberto», enjoy a wonderful view of the Letojanni's Bay and Calabria's coast Raised to a transformation of an ancient monastery, it is rich of garden and green - terrace, has a 52 rooms completely furniture in ethnic style, sea - view with windows - balcony or terrace, bath or shower, WC, direct dial telephone, sat - TV.

Whilst certain churches and monasteries in Ethiopia are closed to women, on this itinerary this only applies to the «old» St. Mary of Zion church in Axum.

The only reason I found myself in Thessaloniki was because the city is home to the closest and cheapest airport to fly to from the UK, in order to reach the incredible clifftop monasteries of Meteora.

The High Crosses, together with with the ruin of a round tower are the only remaining signs of the Drumcliffe monastery, founded by St Colmcille in the sixth Century.