Sentences with phrase «which monks»

When St Augustine arrived in England, he wrote to Pope Gregory to describe the aggression, lawlessness and promiscuity, the broken families and the neglect of children, which his monks had encountered there.

I refer to the chastity, obedience, and poverty which the monk vows to observe; and upon the heads of obedience and poverty I will make a few remarks.

There are all sorts of warnings against the dangers and temptations to which the monk is exposed.

The ascetic ideal has never been entirely extinct in Anglicanism» nor the forms of personal ministry which the monk can provide.

Not exact matches

The Dalai Lama is persona non grata with China's Communist Party, which considers Tibet part of China and has labeled the spiritual leader a «wolf in monk's clothing,» according to The Washington Post.

The abbey, which houses seven «full - time» monks, requires about $ 175,000 a year to operate.

The monks» enemies are not of flesh and bone - their enemies are things like intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which can be found in the heart of men.

Since the center of the movement was Mt. Athos, Nicholas dispatched a military unit, which compelled Russian monks to declare at gunpoint either for the Orthodox Church or the new heresy.

But Pambo, a wise old monk, declared that «both are equal,» and he told of a dream in which he «saw both of them standing in paradise in the presence of God.»

In the brewery, monks brewed vast quantities of Scottish ale, which was served by the liter at mealtimes.

In the hundred years between 850 and 950, Benedictine monks were driven out of ancient monasteries, the Papal States were overrun, and Muslim pirate bases were established along the coast of northern Italy and southern France, from which attacks on the deep inland were launched.

In short, the monks would have been tempted to lose sight of the final goal of their endeavors — not the mere accumulation of facts or the ability to impress others but rather that deep, structured understanding which is ultimately synonymous with the Logos, the creative Word.

At the advice of German officers, the monks wrote Hitler and asked for the protection, which he provided.

Though I can't imagine the close relationship these monks share with God, I would also want to complete the last two parts of my Christian worldview which I feel can not be accomplished as a monk.

The monk hesitated, thinking the matter over, at which point Rinzai released him, saying, «The true person of no status, what a dried - up manure - stick he is,» and then returned to his chamber.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

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

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:

This concern with the peculiar status of the monk is the leitmotif of the volume Contemplation in a World of Action (1973), which brought together a large number of Merton's essays and conference papers on the monastic life done during the»60s.

I too at one time used to only associate eastern meditation practices with peaceful Buddhist monks but my experiences made me aware that some persons who engage in eastern meditation practices (which tend to be deep and intense) also experience adverse effects just as I did.

For that, I encourage the pastors and the monks to offer to the faithful a real education in liturgy, for a more profitable participation, which is before all a union with Christ, who offeredHimself in sacrifice on the Cross, made present in the eucharistic act.»

I read an interview with a Romanian monk, now living in America, in which he said that Orthodoxy would need to adapt to America, and in particular accommodate the characteristic desire to explore things intellectually.

The executioner, enveloped in a black robe from head to foot, with his eyes glaring at his victim through holes cut in the hood which muffled his face, practised successively all the forms of torture which the devilish ingenuity of the monk had invented.

I shall remember the face, voice, and the manner which betokened the tranquil, yet fervent, the deep yet gay spirit of the excellent monk... So humble, so modest, so kindly and yet with an odour of prayer about him, he seemed the very spirit of the Benedictine beauty of holiness.

The discussion began after my students responded with shock and disbelief to my own musical preferences (which are dominated by Mozart, monks, and medieval polyphony).

Buddhist monks & nuns are forced to denounce the Dalai Lama, which they spiritually can't do, & when they refuse, they are jailed & often beaten by Chinese prison guards.

In a fragment from The Possessed that did not appear in the final draft, but which has been published recently under the title Stavrogin's Confession, the monk Tikhon says: «Complete atheism is more respectable than worldly indifference....

The Shaikhs and Buddhist monks often had contests in magic, which the Muslims frequently won.

Monasteries had an infirmitorium or place to which sick monks were taken for treatment.

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.

For example, a number of nomad Arabs in the valley of the Euphrates accepted Christianity because they were attracted to the Christian faith by the power which the Christian monks and hermits exercised over the evil spirits in the name of Jesus.»

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See I heard from someone at the college I'm at that there's this blog somewhere that linked to a website where there was a quote from a forum post where a pilgrim told of meeting monk at a neo-monastery who's been doing some interesting research into the possibility of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy being considered apocalyptic scripture which could mean that the dolphin Dave was on was one of the ones that escaped the earth just before its destruction.

It began pleasantly, almost innocently, in December 1613 in Florence at a breakfast to which Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, invited his mother, the Grand Duchess Christina, and the Benedictine monk and mathematics professor Benedetto Castelli, among others.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

In contrast St. Francis's age had an ecstatic hopefulness which found its prophetic voice in the strange mystic and biblical interpreter, the monk Joachim of Flora (1154 - 1202).

It was the loyalty to him which was the chief source of monasticism and of the contagious conviction which made monks for centuries the chief active agents in the spread of the faith.

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.

The first section contains rules for the monks and nuns which read very much like those of the Buddhists.

In the year A. D. 535, a monk named Cosmas1 wrote a book which he entitled, Christian Topography.

The fact that marriage is an «honorable estate, instituted of God» is of itself a sufficient answer to the Roman Catholic view that celibacy is a higher state to which priests, monks, and nuns are called.

Of aristocratic stock, Dunstan was monk and abbot of Glastonbury, a monastery which claimed foundation by Joseph of Arimathea, to whom the New Testament ascribes the burial of Jesus and who unsupported late tradition says came to Glastonbury.

Through their advocacy of the participation of monks in public life the Josephites furthered the close association of Church and State which characterized Byzantine and most of later pre-Communist Russian Christianity.

Toward the end of the tenth century agitation began for the Peace of God, which sought to exempt from attack all persons and places consecrated to the Church — churches, monasteries, clergy, monks, and virgins.

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.

Here he commended marriage at a reasonably early age, and deplored the common picture of young people living wildly, becoming disgusted with themselves and then turning to being a monk or a priest for which «not one in a hundred» was suited.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

With the other monks he slept in the large upstairs dormitory, ate in the refectory, listening to suitable reading at the same time; and had his stall in the church for the services which were patterned across the day and some of the night These services were centred on the recitation of the sacred poetry of the Jews, the 150 Psalms, which the early Jewish Christians had continued to recite when they became followers of Jesus, and which had become the staple Christian prayer.