Sentences with phrase «religious life of the monks»

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To get a sense of Russian religious life, consider the story of the «imiaslavtsy» (Name - Glorifiers), a group of monks and theologians who accepted the discovery of the starets (elder) Ilarion that «in the Name of God, God Himself is present.»

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.

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.

Obi - Wan Kenobi is an amalgam of the ascetic monk of religious epics — dressed in Franciscan robes and living in a desert hermitage — and the John Wayne hero of EL Dorado, passing on gun - lore to the neophyte Luke, who is destined to carry on after he's gone.

This is not an explicitly genital mode of contact, but it is a way of sexual living that makes its appeal to those who by religious vocation (e.g., monks and nuns) or a call to a particular kind of human service (e.g., Dag Hammarskjold) or some necessity (e.g., those who can not find a life partner or a homosexual comradeship available) are forced to live without a genital way of being sexual.