How To Use Monastery In A Sentence

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)
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
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
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’).

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
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
It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege.
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
They are half finished building a beautiful monastery enclosure and they live a truly monastic-eremetic life. Archive 2006-06-04
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
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.
To order a book one first had to get permission from the monastery that held the copyright.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Women wear shorts are prohibit from visiting the monastery.
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.
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
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
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"
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
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.
Then the monastery is infused with the sounds of the women's spirituality. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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.
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.
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
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 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
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
The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer's work.
He then found job as a gardener in a Capuchin monastery, a job he held for the rest of his life.
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
Boldon was mobilizing the Mongolian beggars and horse stealers, arming and training them; that the soldiers were taking the sheep of the monastery; that the "Noyon" Domojiroff was always drunk; and that the protests of the Hutuktu were answered with jeers and scolding. Beasts, Men and Gods
The victorious but spent fanners and craftsfolk retreated through the shattered gate to the fringe of the forest, leaving the terminal cleansing of the monastery to the rampaging pit bull-bull. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
Somewhere in backwoods Georgia we visited a monastery, a showpiece of religious tolerance. Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War
At the Dominican Monastery they showed half the handkerchief on which the Virgin wept and wiped her eyes at the foot of the cross. Six Months in Mexico
This changes with the third crucifix from the monastery, which is also in the former community's church and dated to 1330. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Galileo had a mixed education, starting at a monastery school in Vallombrosa where he entered the order as a novice, against the wishes of his father.
Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island.
Eochaid and his fifty horsemen had overcome the special detachment from Leven and were safely inside the monastery.
Whoever has seen old Fra Felice from the Franciscan monastery put his foot in the loop of the rope and tread up and down to start them going, knows well enough that the bells cannot begin to ring without assistance. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
It is a reality that Sonja Brankovic, a 28-year-old Bosnian woman witnessed at Sunday morning Liturgy, in the Serbian Orthodox monastery Saint Ilija, Krupa, near Banja Luka, a few days before Pascha Easter 2011. Sasa Milosevic: The Secrets Of Orthodox Exorcists
From the subprior of the Monastery of Saint Benedict at Norcia, Italy; for a newsletter PDF, including more information and an interview, click here. A NEW BIRITUAL MONASTERY Traditional Mass in Norcia, Italy
One casualty of the battle for Monte Cassino was the Benedictine monastery, built in the 6th century.
Martin of Tours, founder of the first monastery in Gaul, was at the time of the following story a soldier in the Roman army who had become enamoured of Christianity and entered catechetical training.
With insane fury, the giant men broke down the doors of the monastery.
In the centre is a minuscule island housing a former monastery which dates back to the ninth century.
Excavations have uncovered a Catholic monastery dating back to the 15th - 17th centuries, which was the seat of Sofia's Catholic eparchy at that time.
Women are not allowed to enter the monastery for historical reasons.
Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Monastery Ritual:Monks remain deep in thought after an early morning prayer meeting at Drepung Monastery.
Everyone dresses alike and dinner in the monastery is compulsory. Times, Sunday Times
The first recorded usage of the term "caviar," which derives from the Turkish word "khavyar," is attributed to Batu Kahn, Ghenghis Khan's grandson, in a written description of a meal he ate in 1240 at a monastery north of Moscow. The Great California Caviar Rush
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
He has cloistered himself in a monastery for more than thirty years.
His only connections seem to have been indirect, formed by associations with other Florentines known to have supported the monastery, including one of the monastery's most important benefactors of the late trecento.
At the same time it was found necessary to regulate the position of the famuli, the hired servants of the monastery, and to include some of these in the monastic family. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
It's nestled between wooded hills and a landscaped garden leading down to a sprawling 16th-century monastery. Times, Sunday Times
We returned to the car and drove down the narrow road to the base of the mountain and the small brick guard shack that protects the monastery. WALKING THE BIBLE
Venerable Lama Samten is one of the resident lamas at Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery, Kaukapakapa, New Zealand.
At Mellifont we have the earliest remains of a claustral planned monastery in Ireland.
Then he knelt by a bush of gorse, told his beads, and earnestly entreated direction and aid for himself, and protection for his sister; and when the sun grew so low as to make it time for a wanderer to seek harbour, he stained and daggled his gown in the mire and water of a peat-moss, so as to destroy its Oxford gloss, took a book in his hand, and walked towards the monastery, reciting Latin verses in the sing-song tone then universally followed. The Caged Lion
Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece.
Right: Side detail visible of an 18th century chasuble from the monastery church of Santa Chiara, Naples.) (Centre: A chasuble from the church of the Gesu in Rome, made for Cardinal Farnese in the second half of the 16th century and based upon an earlier design of the artist Raphael. Roman Exhibition Showcases Significant and Historical Vestments
Women are not allowed to enter the monastery for historical reasons.
The photopolymer resin dot-matrix display sits on a table in a frequently trafficked monastery hallway subtly scrolling a news ticker. CNET News.com
Many of the monastery's ancillary buildings were added upon his arrival. Smithsonian Mag
The monastery functioned as a leprosarium and Juliana served there as a canoness until ousted during a conflict with townspeople.
The entrance to the monastery is on the eastern side of the first level and at the far end of the entrance hall, behind a stonewall, part of which still exists, was the crypt.
Eochaid and his fifty horsemen had overcome the special detachment from Leven and were safely inside the monastery.
And be as ye were deed amonge them & as ye were buryed in your sepulcre the whiche betokeneth your monastery/to the tyme ye aryse & appere afore your spouse to haue your rewarde of his glory. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men
Give to a convent or monastery that's doing what it's called to do.
Siluanus the abbat married them, vnto whom the very same day, king Godred gaue a portion of ground in Mirescoge, where he built a Monastery: howbeit, in processe of time, the said land with the monkes, was granted vnto the abbey of Russin. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
By what name Mother Shipton was christened, and how her mother went into a monastery. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha.
Late one night, he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter.
An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks.
Peasant labour was "unfree" - tied to a particular estate and having to provide a share of their crops or labour to the lord or the monastery that ruled them. Socialist Worker (Britain)
It is now only exceptionally that the cantharus is found doing service as a holy water font, mainly at Mount Athos, where the phiala of the monastery of Laura stands near the catholicon in front of the entrance and is covered by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister.
_Of Saint Comhgallus, and the Monastery foreshowed of Heaven. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
On the right side of the pyramid was the monastery, with its abbot and his subordinate monks.
Cosimo belonged to no fewer than ten confraternities and had recently had a cell installed for himself within the Dominican monastery of San Marco. The Poet Prince
In this place of great poverty, the Abuna wanted to show his Bishop how rich in faith its tens of thousands of people are who worship at the Monastery of St. Simaan.
Though the palace and monastery have disappeared and the inside of the church has been gutted, the exterior walls are still in good condition and decorated with recognisable and realistic reliefs.
Daniel Mitsui over at The Lion and the Cardinal posted some photos of some absolutely magnificent vestments from the monastery of Klosterneuburg made in the early twentieth century, done in the Jugendstil style (if that is not too much of a tautology), the German (and Austrian) counterpart to Art Nouveau. Jugendstil
In Tibet, law of the monastery proclaims that postulant monks shall seek admission only in their respective monastic sections. Contemporary Scholars - The 100th Ganden Tripa (Ganden Throneholder)
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.
In a monastery, this angry, agnostic pilgrim makes progress. Times, Sunday Times
He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery.
It is like visiting a working monastery, and a solemn one at that. Times, Sunday Times
He had commenced work when a gust of wind blew his cloak, which he had left upon a rock, across the valley and it landed where the monastery was later built.
Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas.
Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever.
The Lucullan villa at some point gave way to a monastery, enshrining the bones of Saint Severinus; circumstantial evidence suggests that Romulus and his mother may have founded it. The Road from Ravenna
The bishop was also titular abbot of the Benedictine monastery in the town, and the head of the household of monks bore the title of prior, but was mitred like an abbot. A River So Long
Near the patriarchate is the large Orthodox monastery (St. Constantine) with a printing press and hospice for pilgrims. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
She explained to the publican that this was a great English knight travelling from the Monastery to the court of Scotland, after having paid his vows to Saint Mary, and that she had been directed to conduct him so far on the road; and that Ball, her palfrey, had fallen by the way, because he had been over-wrought with carrying home the last melder of meal to the portioner of Langhope; and that she had turned in Ball to graze in the Tasker's park, near Cripplecross, for he had stood as still as Lot's wife with very weariness; and that the knight had courteously insisted she should ride behind him, and that she had brought him to her kend friend's hostelry rather than to proud Peter The Monastery
The ceiling lights were old yellow incandescent bulbs, and the monastery's little foyer smelled of wax, incense, and unwashed feet.
Bearing in mind, then, that the term convent has to do with a corporation of men or women united into an organized society, and that the term monastery can strictly be applied only to the buildings -- the _domus_, in which that society has its home -- it will be well at starting that we should endeavour to gain some notion of the general plan of these buildings first, and when we have done that that we should proceed to deal next with the constitution of the society itself and the daily routine of conventual life. The Coming of the Friars
That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon.
The film traces the palimpsest from Constantinople to a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judaean desert to the library of the Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem. Television: Archimedes' Disgusting Document
Born in Mainz around the year 780, Rabanus entered the monastery when he was still very young: the name Maurus was given him precisely in reference to the young Maurus who, according to the second book of St. Gregory the Great's "Dialogues," had been given at a very young age to the abbot Benedict of Nursia by his own parents, who were Roman nobles. Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"
Spirituality is not achieved by meditating for years on a mountaintop, or by fasting in a reclusive monastery.
The remarkable church of this monastery still exists as a mosque, and is known as Eski imaret Mahallasse. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
Beseeching your good mastership, for the love of Christ's passion, to help to the preservation of this poor monastery, that we your beadsmen may remain in the service of God, with the meanest living that any poor men may live with, in this world. Highways and Byways in Surrey
The cellarer was the material counterpart of the sacrist: Cuthbert had to provide for all the monks’ practical needs, gathering in the produce of the monastery’s farms and granges and going to market to buy what the monks and their employees could not provide themselves. The Pillars of the Earth
The monastery is an hour away by footpath.
Instead, he simply forced Arda to enter the monastery of St. Anne.
In this venerable mansion there was one chamber whose dismal and singular constructure left no doubt of its having been a part of the original monastery. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
Although what the abbot says must be done, without complaint (ch. 5), the abbot is adjured at some length to recall his answerability before God, his call to be the image of Christ in the monastery and to 'leaven' the minds of those under his care, and his duty to ignore apparent claims of status among the monks. 'Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality
With a commanding view of the surrounding area, the monastery has many treasures.
He chose Lindisfarne as his base and established a church and monastery here.
Into Great Silence 2005- In this intimate doc, we get a never-before-seen glimpse of the daily lives and rituals of the Grande Chartreuse, an 11th-century monastery inhabited by modern-day Carthusian monks, whose vows of silence and poverty guide them to states of profound inner holiness. John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith
Located about 30 km from Charang village, this monastery was approachable via a small, steep and adventurous path after the motorable road finished.
And indeed it was revealed immediately to the hegumen that this person whom he had assigned the task of animal care, who also had to carry firewood from the forest, the Niphon the Ecumenical Patriarch who long ago had been one of the brotherhood of the monastery. Word from the Desert
Francis paid a call on his predecessor at a monastery on the Vatican's grounds to offer Christmas greetings.
As long as you follow the rules of the monastery then they will respect you as a good monk.
The monastery, that is to say, is a place of continual repentance, of constantly renewed conversion.
Synopsis: An chiaroscurist - an artist who specializes in monotone pictures which highlight might and shadow - sculpts the face of god in a monastery. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
The book contains the Old Testament, the New Testament, a necrology of the Podlazice monastery, a list of Podlazice fraternity members, a script on natural history, the oldest Czech Latin chronicle – there are eleven contents items in all. The Devil’s Bible: The Biggest Book in the World | Impact Lab
He's living in a monastery in a gesture of atonement for human rights abuses committed under his leadership.
Sergius obeyed the starets, showed his letter to the Abbot, and having obtained his permission, gave up his cell, handed all his possessions over to the monastery, and set out for the Tambov hermitage. Father Sergius
He used his former wealth to support churches and cathedrals within his diocese and founded a monastery at Auxerre. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
When I was in exile a few years back, I took a bunch of classes at the U here, the modern version of closetting yourself in a monastery when you got crossways with the King. Unplug Education. No Computers In Schools. - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState
The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.
The monastery sits on a great crag of rock overlooking the orchards and olive groves of the Damascene plain, and at first sight, with its narrow windows and great rugged curtain walls, looks more like a Crusader castle than a convent.
A monastery will do that too; but in the unholy claustration of a jail you are thrown back wholly upon yourself -- for God and Faith are not there. Chance A Tale in Two Parts
‘The great beauty of going to this monastery is that it admits you to a state of total changelessness,’ he enthuses.
The initiate is dressed in finery and escorted with pomp to the monastery, where his head and eyebrows are shaved.
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He set up his "bindery" in the monastery courtyard, which attracted the attention of monkeys. British specialists help save Ethiopia's ancient Garima Gospels
Each year the monastery's monks perform sacred chham dances that enact the illusory nature of life.
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
These classes are conducted in the monastery and broadcast on loudspeakers out to the public.
Some decorations and muniments there were which could not be procured even in Gaul, and these the pious founder determined to fetch from Rome; for which purpose, after he had formed the rule for his monastery, he made his fourth voyage to Rome, and returned loaded with more abundant spiritual merchandise than before. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Benedict made a historic gesture for interchurch unity by presiding over a prayer service with a Protestant bishop in the Erfurt monastery where the 16th-century reformer Martin Luther lived as a monk before he split with Rome. Reuters: Press Release
Staying in a monastery or a convent is not a new concept; monks and nuns have been welcoming pilgrims for centuries. Times, Sunday Times
An extraordinary letter was written by the prior of the monastery two years before his martyrdom.
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 three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
And among all other, Alban was the best knight, and most best proved in strength, wherefore he had a sovereign name tofore all other, whose arms were of azure with a saltire of gold, which arms afterward bare the noble king Offa, first founder of the monastery called S. Albans, and he bearing those arms had ever glorious victory, and after his death he left those arms in the monastery of S. Alban. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
On her arrival at the monastery she learned from her garrulous nun-attendant that the _Amban_ had been summoned to Pekin, where a revolution had taken place and his friends there hoped to make him The Jungle Girl
Here dwelt the Pillarists as in the Monastery of St. Simeon Stylites.
As are the ruins of their monasteries and hermitages (apart from a crumbling monastery tower, and a winsome Welsh chapel).
Originally a monastery, and then a private residence and then the Institute, Na Bolom was recently run by a Mexican Trust under the direction of an ex-Governor of Chiapas, referred to as El Jefe, a rigid man of military bearing, he could fix you with his piercing cold glacier-blue eyes, his gray hair bristled, cut en brose. Instituto Cientifico de Na Bolom - a magical place
In Gaul a pleiad of writers and theologians develops at Lérins or within the radius of that monastery's influence -- Cassian, Honoratus, Eucherius of Lyons, Vincent of Lérins, Hilary of Arles, Valerian of Cemelium, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
After the film wrapped, young Tamara was sent to a monastery to ‘develop her third eye.’
The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river. The Crossing-Place
A chorten near Pangboche monastery contains some of his relics. The Himalayan Times RSS
According to the regional police directorate in Blagoevgrad, the argument about the monastery had started last Easter.
The film does not depict a monastery, but it transforms itself into a monastery, because a monastery is a place where, through the rhythm of time, which is very strict, and through [the monks '] confinement, the spiritual space is opened up for them. A Different Stripe:
This work, marked by palmettes and knotted vines forming a cross, was paired with a sculpture of the Virgin and Child from the Banjska Monastery.
For thirty-two years, the founder himself maintained the monastery as a great institution by giving extensive discourses on the Three Baskets (sDe-snod gsum, Skt. Tripitaka) with respect to sutra studies and on the four classes of tantra with respect to tantra studies. A Brief History of Drepung Monastery
One example of this is in his sermon on St. Hilda, the seventh-century abbess who ruled over a double monastery of men and women at Whitby.

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