How To Use Monas In A Sentence

Today, ashrams and monasteries of various Hindu sects keep the traditions of classical learning alive.
This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century. Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.

With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
If uninterrupted peace and quiet are what you crave, a week at this former monastery will deliver the goods. Times, Sunday Times
This is true with the exception that of "Decorated" architecture there are but few examples, and it is probable that very little new work was done in connection with this cathedral until the monastery became vastly enriched by Abbot Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
What was supposed to be a sequestered monastic retreat became a hive of modern American productive activity.
The Indian media, quoting unnamed security sources, have reported concerns that the Karmapa could be a Chinese stooge sent to India from Tibet to set up pro-Chinese monasteries. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
Cities such as Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, and Yaroslavl grew around the old fortresses (kremlins) and monasteries that formed their centers and near the gates where artisans and traders peddled their goods.
Kennaquhair, or because it agrees with scenes of the Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture. The Monastery
Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct.
Then there is the newer breed of hotel: the freshly converted castles and monasteries, most of them secreted away in superb countryside. Umbria - the green heart of Italy
She mentally reviewed his no longer youthful figure, his monastic face, black-haired and large-nosed, with eyes full of expression, his curly mouth, at once judgmatic and benevolent. Flowering Wilderness
Converted castles, mansions and monasteries are among the 85 paradores - or top-class hotels - run by the Spanish government.
After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied.
On arrival in a village he would ingratiate himself with the locals to find out if anyone owned a violin, or he might visit monasteries and other likely prospects, offering to repair their instruments.
Born a peasant in the mountainous Cantal region of France in about 950, Gerbert entered a Benedictine monastery -- the only elementary school of his day. Nancy Marie Brown: The Abacus and The Cross: When the Pope Was A Scientist
Early teaching methods were modelled on the monastic system or based on trade guilds, with no specific forms of architecture.
Today, Mount Athos is home to some 1,800 monks living in 20 monasteries and outlying hermitages. A Fossil With Flesh
The theme of the workshop will be study of Gregorian chant neums and stylistic performance technique as applied to the repertoire of the monastic office (psalmody, antiphons, responsories, etc.). More Gregorian Chant - Italia!
Description of the late erected monastical Place called the Arminian The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege.
TrackBack to 'Genomic analysis of Pseudoalteromonas tunicata'. What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate
With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
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At a recent graduation ceremony I attended at Monash, the Dean of Arts told the assembled graduands that their newly awarded degree only had a short shelf life and would need to be updated through further study within a few years.
Many species of Chlamydomonas are facultative auxotrophs, capable of utilizing acetate as their sole carbon and energy source.
Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.
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The title "archimandrite" appears to be given now to abbots of the more important monasteries and also sometimes as a personal title of distinction to others. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
At length returning home, he obtained of Ængus, king of Munster, a grant of the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that the island was called Arran of the Saints. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.
They are half finished building a beautiful monastery enclosure and they live a truly monastic-eremetic life. Archive 2006-06-04
Sera is one of the three great Gelug monastic universities where monks do intensive study and training in Buddhist philosophy.
They argued that the individual friars might still remain absolutely possessionless, even if the order had beautiful churches and comfortable monasteries. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
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Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca is in a former monastery and a wander around the airy cloisters or in the excellent cacti garden offer a respite from any cases of museum fatigue.
He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.
There was an intermediate period (from about the sixth to the ninth centuries) during which the title archimandrite was given as a purely personal honour to certain hegumenoi without involving any exemption from the monastery. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
And everything, one may say, was at his beck and call, and even those in authority hindered him in nothing, and the archimandrite thanked him for his zeal: he gave freely of his substance to the monastery, and when the fit came upon him he sighed and groaned over his soul and was troubled not a little over the life to come. A Raw Youth
Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference.
There they settled in Bethlehem and established his and hers monastic houses.
Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war.
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.
The regime has since closed monastic colleges and sent member monks back to their respective villages. Times, Sunday Times
Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform.
Another group of monasteries grew up around friars who although taking the triple vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience were mendicants who moved about the country using any house of their own order as a base.
The runes cannot yet be deciphered, but the monastery was refounded under Cnut in 1014 and the inscription is no doubt connected to the site in some way.
Vitex is another popular treatment for PMS. Also known as chasteberry, vitex was once used in monasteries to reduce sexual desire. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
To order a book one first had to get permission from the monastery that held the copyright.
The apparels on the amice and albs are also quite nice and seem particularly suited to the monastic context in which all of this takes place. Solemn Mass at Ss. Gregory and Augustine Oratory, St. Louis Abbey
From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
It is exhilarating to visit these monasteries, as also the Buddhist Museum which has Buddhist relics excavated from various parts of India.
When a platoon of American troops in WWII were making their way across Europe, they came across a bombed-out monastery with these words graffitied on its basement wall.
The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey. Father Sergius
Traditionally, prior to marrying and beginning his adult life, a young man entered the sangha (the Buddhist monastic order) and spent time as a novice.
It seemed worthwhile sharing some photos taken by Vernon Quaintance from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which shows a recent Mass there in the modern form of the Roman liturgy, which was celebrated on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the monastic profession of the Very Rev. Dom Benedict Austen, OSB this past March 21st, 2009. St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
Originally the term monastery designated, both in the East and in the West, the dwelling either of a solitary or of a community; while caenobium, congregatio, fraternitas, asceterion, etc. were applied solely to the houses of communities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Since the accommodation for visitors on Mount Athos is more than basic, we had to share one and the same cell in the monastery of Philotheu.
All members were to take the three traditional monastic vows.
The Protestant Reformation enlisted widespread lay support by its politically motivated aversion to the monastic ideal, which lay anticlericals opposed as absorbing too much wealth in support of its institutions.
Of such a kind are the various monastic cartularies, law-books like Glanvill's, records like the Patent, Close, and Charter Rolls, collections of letters, and modern collections of documents like T. Rymer's Foedera or J.H. Round's Calendar of The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender.
With the dissolution of monasteries in 1534 this craft passed from monasteries to farmers where it remained, for centuries, small-scale or artisanal.
The visitors, lured by the intrigue of the island's rich monastic history, will spend the day exploring and picnicking on golden beaches.
And then the king, to give relation to him of his penance, enjoined by Leo his predecessor, to re-edify a monastery of the glorious apostle S. Peter, and sent Alfred, the archbishop of York, to The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
Something attacks the remote Siberian Saint Samuil of Arkady monastery that contains in its scriptorium books written by the Users; every resident except Va the monk dies in the assault; the reference tomes are stolen. The Lost Art-Simon Morden « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The unusual marriage was solemnized at the Dharmasheela Buddha Vihar monastery with a three-hour ritual that was capped by eating festive food by relatives attending the ceremony.
He spent many years in Hindu monasteries in central India and established a ashram at Nanded in Maharashtra where he lived for fifteen years before meeting Guru Gobind Singh.
This has since morphed into many different monastic movements over the last 1700 years. Christianity Today
I didn't tell anyone about this at the time, except for two or three of the Saivite monastics who were with me in Switzerland.
In many monasteries, especially larger ones, the claustral prior is assisted by a subprior, who holds the third place in the monastery. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
You need a masochistic streak and a monastic existence to win medals. Times, Sunday Times
But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
In any case nothing that their castellan did, nothing he denied, nothing he granted, no princeling he rejected, no humble travelling monastic he welcomed, seemed to occasion surprise here. A River So Long
Towering over the monastery is the peak of Jebel Musa “the Mountain of Moses” in Arabic, which was identified, as early as the Byzantine period, with Mount Sinai. The Bible Unearthed
Petrobrusian heresy in his diocese and became a Carthusian; Bl. Bernard (1173-76); St. Stephen (1203-8), formerly a Carthusian at the monastery of Portes; Bl. Didier (Desiderius) de Lans (1213-20). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
He repaired the old monastery church and adorned it with murals painted in the fresco technique typical of the time.
Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
The emphasis on nodes which I encountered in the monastery links back to my Saturn return, in a way, since the dispositor of my North Node is Saturn.
That role was amicably filled by Abbot Joseph of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Redwood, California until his abbatial duties, understandably, simply didn't allow for it. Reviving the NLM Eastern Catholic Correspondent: Call for Submissions
TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
The name St. Bernard comes from the monastery and hospice in Switzerland with which these dogs are historically associated. The Daily Puppy | Pictures of Puppies
Early in the thirteenth century, the monastic map of western Europe was transformed by the emergence of the mendicant friars.
In 1363, for example, Bindo Benini donated to the monastery a relatively modest sum of 120 florins in order to help defray construction and decoration costs of a burial chapel in the chapterhouse.
In place of conventional biblical and hagiographic narratives, we find subjects based more loosely on the bestiary, the Psalms, moralizing treatises, and monastic accounts of dreams and hallucinations.
Along with the ranch, President Evo Morales 'government also confiscated a 500-hectare parcel from Osvaldo Monasterio, a banker and agribusinessman who owns the Unitel TV network. Ajc.com - News
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
The Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Serbian monasteries on the holy mountain attest to the Byzantine Empire's cultural diversity. The Holy Mountain
Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.
She belonged to a Benedictine monastery in Gundersheim which was a center of intellectual and religious activity.
He made also a great Psalter, _magnum psalterium_, superior to any contained in the monastery, except the glossed ones. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin.
Shimla, 28 October 2006 (PTI) - Tibetan spiritual head The Dalai Lama today consecrated the ancient Thungyur Lakhang Buddhist gompa (monastery) at Rampur today to mark 2550th anniversary of 'Mahaparinirvan' (enlightenment) of Lord Buddha. Newsroom Archive 2006
Staying in a monastery or a convent is not a new concept; monks and nuns have been welcoming pilgrims for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels.
Shortly following his mother's death, he had gone to a monastery in Nottinghamshire for a week of yogic transcendental meditation. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The word eulogia has a special use in connexion with monastic life. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Although lands owned by educational institutions were at first exempted from nationalization, other sources of support, such as impropriated tithes and standard donations from chapters and monasteries, dried up.
Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere
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In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.
Similarly, in eastern Europe and the Baltic, crusaders constructed a range of fortresses from wooden blockhouses to the great monastery castles of the military orders.
The young student explains to his friend how stingily the old woman conducts her business, how she beats her sister, and how the old woman decides to leave all her money to a monastery.
The monastery was formally inaugurated by His Holiness on March 31, 1985.
Speaking of Tenebrae, some of our readers may also be interested in following Tenebrae from the Monastery of San Benedetto, Norcia, Italy. Tenebrae from the Benedictines of Norcia, Italy
I am afraid of my calendry; my monasteries are all sold, Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
In protest, some believers adopted a way of life known as monasticism.
Emperor Saga retired from the throne in 823 at the age of thirty-eight, the same year he awarded Kukai the headship of the monastery Toji for use as a Shingon training center in the Heian capital.
The dreadlocked Shane Claiborne is here, author of The Irresistible Revolution (2006) and a leader of a movement known as the New Monasticism. Sing to the Lord a New Song
The abbey appears to have been almost abolished shortly after the Reformation, the only parts of the monastic buildings allowed to remain being the fratery and portions of the chapter-house, which were incorporated with the mansion-house. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
James Conor Coleman, Cross, Edmondstown recently celebrated the sacrament of Baptism in Monasteraden.
The verdict from Monash University chair of linguistics Kate Burridge is that the apparently non-committal expression will stick around.
Similarly, his image of St. Francis conveys the saint's swooning spirituality with all the appropriate trappings - halo, monastic robe, stigmata and the animals to which he preached.
We drove out of town on the Dublin road, then swung up a lane, beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin.
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There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. The Memory Palace
There is little direct precedent for this model in Asia, where only monastics engage in serious meditation, and its long-range future remains an open question.
He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership.
It was previously a small monastery but the authorities turned all the monks out.
The name St. Bernard comes from the monastery and hospice in Switzerland with which these dogs are historically associated. The Daily Puppy | Pictures of Puppies
His brother reminded him that he ought to go to the Monastery and shrive himself before Father Eustace, who would that day occupy the confessional.
The society member said: ‘There is no dating of this site yet, but it is thought that there is a possibility that it is linked with a monastic grange which was in the vicinity which dates back to the 13 th Century.’
In ancient China, there were lots of monasteries.
Women wear shorts are prohibit from visiting the monastery.
Why are Germany's convents and monasteries marketing themselves as New Age spiritual retreats for paying customers?
Now the younger monk was perturbed by his friend's conduct because their monastic code forbade them touching a woman, much less giving her a piggyback ride.
I haue bene in one of the monasteries called Troietes,222 which is walled about with bricke very strongly like a castle, and much ordinance of brasse vpon the walles of the same. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
In the more carefully constructed monasteries this apartment was so placed as to adjoin the calefactory, which allowed the introduction of hot air, when needed. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
The abbot of the monastery called the novice into his office and instructed him to give the homily at the next morning's chapel. Christianity Today
Above the square were the monastery buildings. The Crossing-Place
With the exception of the estates of the anciently-established monasteries, these new baronies do not reflect the earlier estate arrangements.
Abbey Notre-Dame d'Orval Villers-devant-Orval, Belgium www. orval.be La Trappe Monastery founded in 1881, brewing since 1884 A Tasting Tour of Trappist Brews
For many, partnership remains cloaked in a monastic exclusivity, as accessible as the holy orders.
Monastery Ritual: Monks remain deep in after an early morning prayer meeting at Drepung Monastery.
The celebrated monastery of Rila possesses a vast estate in the Rilska Planina; its abbot or _hegumen_ owns no spiritual superior but the exarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins.
There were more than 6000 monasteries and nunneries in the three regions of Tibet - U-Tsang, Dotö and Domey.
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Prepare to be told about sailing routes and prevailing weather conditions in the North Atlantic; pagan Norse baby naming traditions; Icelandic domestic life, including details of clothes, furniture, diet and agriculture; Norse witchcraft (seidr) and prophetesses (volva); Norse ship design; Irish social structure, monastic organisation, medicine and law. Archive 2006-07-01
The medieval towns, monasteries, perfumeries, olive groves, flower farms and steep countryside into the alpine area provided the most magnificent scenery.
Almelo, a Bachelor in Physic or Medicine, began to prepare a place for a monastery; for of their own free will and by his council they had determined to build an house in Vrensueghen upon an hereditament that is called Enoldint. The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
As well as a variety of service activities, Pavia also included dwellings to accommodate the representatives of the various bishoprics and monasteries during convocations of the kingdom's assemblies and synods.
Uphold your vows strictly, be they marriage, monasticism, nonaddiction, tithing, loyalty to a lineage, vegetarianism or nonsmoking.
He demonstrated to her, -- that the disobligation to her Parents would be greater by going to a Monastery, since it was only to avoid a choice which they had made for her, and which she could not have so just a pretence to do till she had made one for her self. Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd
In the Saivite tradition, an aadheenam is a monastery-temple complex and not an ashram in the usual sense.
The works of Martène (1654-1739) on ecclesiastical and monastic rites (1690 and 1700-2) and his collections of anecdota (1700, 1717, and 1724-33) are most voluminous; he was assisted by Durand. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Rule XXI. is against unevangelical contention for places at table, and Rule XXII. regulates the monastic habit. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
These monasteries preserved the cultural riches of Greece and Rome, as well as the growing wisdom accumulated by the Church herself.
Stripped of its activism, the book's titular search for Afro-Asian solidarity could be read as an increasingly monastic pursuit, as the dream of a global alliance against imperialism is passed from one individual to the next.
Then the monastery is infused with the sounds of the women's spirituality. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Her sacred well is up a path to the right-hand side of the two impressive monastic buildings, one of which is of the ninth century. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
The number of parishes and monasteries has grown substantially with the restoration of religious freedom.
Monastery Ritual Monks remain deep in concern despite an early morning prayer meeting at Drepung Monastery.
She attempted in these works to capture the rhythmic, temporal chants of the Ladakh monastery.
Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
Should monasteries be seen, in the second place, as contributing to the life of the wider church through evangelism and missionary work?
Staying in a monastery or a convent is not a new concept; monks and nuns have been welcoming pilgrims for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
The monastery is in a remote mountain pass.
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An expert Latinist, he translated all the works of the 12th-century monastic masters. Meditations Of A Man With An Uncaged Mind
Their relationship with the ‘Gregorian’ repertory has been much debated, but there has been general agreement in associating them with the liturgy celebrated in the basilicas of Rome by their clergy and supporting monasteries.
Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas. The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
After the decline and fall of the Roman Empire it fell to the monasteries of Europe to preserve and pass on learning.
The silence in the Dominican nuns 'refectory is similar to the requirements of other monastic rules, but the Rule focuses on the function that the room serves — a place to hear readings — giving a reason for the practice of silence often lacking in other Rules. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
After the Reformation the monasteries were largely destroyed or fell into ruin.
They had to hurry him away to a monastery. The Catalans
I cooked alone, ate alone, and walked alone four times a day up the steep hill to the monastery to participate in the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours.
The monastic cloisters enclose a medieval-style secret garden and an ancient stone fountain carved with fantastic beasts!
The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the “Pilgrim” or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a Drycthelm of the monastery at Melrose, who went into a secret dwelling therein to give himself more utterly to prayer, and who used to stand for hours in the cold waters of the Tweed, as St. Godric did centuries afterwards in those of the Wear. The Hermits
We had planned to yomp up to monasteries and castles and to cycle the excellent bike trail around the lake. Times, Sunday Times
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He refused to be drawn into the ritualism which for many was the natural consequence of the Oxford movement, but supported the revival of Anglican monastic life, particularly for women.
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A couple of years ago he first began to think he'd like to join monastic life full time.
By the fifteenth century groundsel was grown extensively with other medicinal plants in many monastery gardens. The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
It had not been accomplished in this semimonastic life, but the efforts toward it had their influence, and, you may judge by the quality of its founders, had never died. The Development of Embroidery in America
After a four-hour ramble on foot through deep gorges, past monasteries, and up steep, forested hillsides, we arrive in Chhulemu, Babu's home village.
A staff is also granted to archimandrites and abbots, as they are the heads of monasteries.
Several key spots for viewing the lesser kestrel are at ancient monasteries built into cliffs along narrow dry streambeds that wind down to the Jordan River.
But in many other respects I found it actually was a kind of an obstacle, and so I'd kind of given up the idea of pursuing a Buddhist monastic life in Europe.
The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer's work.
His influence on them led to his being regarded as the father of monasticism. Times, Sunday Times
He then found job as a gardener in a Capuchin monastery, a job he held for the rest of his life.
Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
An unbroken list of masters of the almonry school exists dating from the fourteenth century until 1538 when the monastery was dissolved.
It is not customary to use the term emancipation for that form of dismissal by which a church is released from parochial jurisdiction, a bishop from subordination to his metropolitan, a monastery or order from the jurisdiction of the bishop, for the purpose of placing such person or body under the ecclesiastical authority next higher in rank, or under the pope himself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
On this 13-day tour you'll see imperial eagles, Egyptian vultures and Dalmatian pelicans, plus frescoed monasteries, Roman ruins and the monuments of the Thracian horsemen.
In particular he favoured the monks, and founded over twenty monasteries in the Dioceses of Bamberg, Würzburg, Ratisbon, Passau, Eichstätt, Halberstadt and Aquileia. Catholic Bamberg: The Church of St. Getreu

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