Sentences with phrase «serve in the monastery»

This seemed to her a great cruelty, for she thought to find in the cloister the true Christians she had been seeking, but she found afterwards that he knew the cloisters better than she; for after he had forbidden her, and told her he would never permit her to be a religious, nor give her any money to enter there, yet she went to Father Laurens, the Director, and offered to serve in the monastery and work hard for her bread, and be content with little, if he would receive her.

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It is once again time for Catholic universities to serve as monasteries, preserving the deepest things, in the midst of the current barbarian ravages.

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.

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.

Although the Tibetan Terrier can trace his history back thousands of years to when his ancestors served as companions to monks in Tibetan monasteries, the modern TT's history starts in 1922.

In addition to the catacombs, tour the church and monastery to see some fantastic artwork, architecture, the beautiful wooden stairs, learn about the religious history, and see some subtle ways Christianity was spread throughout Peru, such as with a painting of the local Peruvian dish of guinea pig «cuy» served for the famous Last Supper before Jesus.

Formally enthroned as «Khenpo» by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in 1998, he was assigned to teach at the Buddhist college of the Palyul monastery in Tibet, where he served on the faculty for two years.

SFU Gallery is embedded within Arthur Erickson's Brutalist (and utopian) mountaintop university complex, while the BAG is located in a manor house that over the years has served as the home of a genteel Burnaby family, a monastery, a cult centre, an SFU residence, and since 1967 a public art gallery.