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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 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.
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.
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

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Early teaching methods were modelled on the monastic system or based on trade guilds, with no specific forms of architecture.
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
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.
Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.
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.
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
There they settled in Bethlehem and established his and hers monastic houses.
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
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.
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
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
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.
The visitors, lured by the intrigue of the island's rich monastic history, will spend the day exploring and picnicking on golden beaches.
Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
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.
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
Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
Early in the thirteenth century, the monastic map of western Europe was transformed by the emergence of the mendicant friars.
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.
The word eulogia has a special use in connexion with monastic life. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
In protest, some believers adopted a way of life known as monasticism.
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
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.
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.
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.’
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.
For many, partnership remains cloaked in a monastic exclusivity, as accessible as the holy orders.
Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins.
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
Uphold your vows strictly, be they marriage, monasticism, nonaddiction, tithing, loyalty to a lineage, vegetarianism or nonsmoking.
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
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.
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
An expert Latinist, he translated all the works of the 12th-century monastic masters. Meditations Of A Man With An Uncaged Mind
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
The monastic cloisters enclose a medieval-style secret garden and an ancient stone fountain carved with fantastic beasts!
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.
A couple of years ago he first began to think he'd like to join monastic life full time.
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
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.
His influence on them led to his being regarded as the father of monasticism. Times, Sunday Times
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.
They had the feel of monastic cells. Times, Sunday Times
The final section on lay spirituality is a pastiche of elements from a number of sources (the charismatics, monastic renewal, and others).
Yet the texts are firmly part of the later medieval world: the first two come from the writings of visionary women mystics and the last from a rigorously ascetic monastic theologian.
The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island.
Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of crenellations (battlements).
Monastic abbots, by comparison, found spiritual leadership easy, because the monks were sheltered from contact with the world.
Benedict drew up a rule for the monastic communities which were based on needs and functions.
An ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey in commendam, that is, who draws its revenues and, if an ecclesiastic, may also have some jurisdiction, but does not exercise any authority over its inner monastic discipline. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. Les Miserables
The first poster is, however, even more seriously deluded and may, for all I know, believe also in albino assassin monks from a non-monastic society. June 21st, 2009
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
One face is very elegant and fine, close to Roman é e-Conti in finesse; the other side is more abrupt, monastic even. Searching for Perfection
Cathedrals which were not monastic foundations, and collegiate churches, were served by secular clergy, the canons or prebendaries, who constituted the capitular body or chapter.
Two of those cellars have vaults supported on central pillars in almost monastic manner and are ideal for parties or suppers. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike traditional monasticism, such communities are open to married couples. Times, Sunday Times
Historically, Psalms have always been sung by believers, beginning in Jewish worship and continuing through that of monastic orders.
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.
Even the increasingly rare eremite, the desert dweller, regularly leaves his bleak and rugged cave, trekking to the monastic enclave or his neighbor's chapel for the purpose of liturgical worship and communion. Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
The monks are chiefly devoted to the splendor of their religious services; the solitaries still cherish Hesychast ideas and an apocalyptic mysticism, and the whole monastic republic represents just such an intellectual decay as must follow on a total exclusion of all outside intercourse and a complete neglect of all intellectual effort (Kaulen). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Historically, periods of upheaval in the church have always seen a recovery led first by the religious or monastic orders; the diocesan clergy and episcopal hierarchy then follow suit, returning to orthodoxy.
In the words of a leading twentieth-century Athonite monk, Fr Theoklitos of Dionysiou, ‘it is the eremitic life that constitutes the primary form of monasticism in the East.’
By contrast, the vision of early monasticism presented in the Letters of Antony should be understood as both authentic and reliable.
The monastic buildings surround the church and spread up the hillside above.
When he had written his treatise on monastic vows, Luther had only demanded that marriage should be open to everyone.
William of Poitiers more Christian in his realism, ac - ceptance of the incarnation, and his humanism than his monastic adversary? LOVE
Their members took the traditional monastic vows, but devoted their lives to pastoral work, aiming to produce a well-instructed and devout laity.
Accommodation is available, as is a full live-in experience of the monastic life. Times, Sunday Times
Hence, though it has been described as a Cluniac establishment in ancient documents, even in papal letters of so late a date as 1309, it was never an "alien" house, and Cluny can only claim the credit of having set it going with monks and monastic customs. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
In Asia monastics were great healers, and incredible people.
Eustace had not had his thoughts turned so much to the progress of heresy, and so little to what was passing in the tower, he might have read, in the speaking eyes of Mary Avenel, now a girl of fourteen or fifteen, reasons which might disincline her youthful companion towards the monastic vows. The Monastery
Erinn gratuitously rags on Dragonlicker, calling his monastic approach, "the martyr approach," telling how he will overdramatize his suffering to give him an excuse for blowing the next challenge. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge
Monasticism is a spiritual way of life that is found in many different religious faiths.
This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
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)
I dressed by the light of the lantern then picked my way downstairs through the empty stairways and corridors of Mar Saba, towards the deep swell and eddy of monastic chant.
I saw how they lived, saw how they dressed, and that influenced in a very strict way the monastic protocols that we later put into action in our own monastic order.
But other early monastic texts hold out the hope of a different, nonviolent, world, one that restores the prelapsarian harmony between human beings and animals.
In 1471 Roger leaves his monastic life to become a chapman.
Equally effective in the general diffusion of Christian ideas and Christianity in general was the monastic movement.
Some monastic granges had particular functions, for example as agrarian farms, sheep farms, cattle ranches, horse studs, or industrial workings.
Or are you discouraged by the austerity — monasticism, even — of the regime? Times, Sunday Times
Many ‘ordinary priests’, ministering to rural communities far removed from the episcopal and monastic centres, must have suffered as many hardships as the members of their flock.
The article stressed the explicit Catholicity of Christian chivalry, comparing the ideals that bound knights to service with the characteristic vows of Catholic monastic life.
A couple of years ago he first began to think he'd like to join monastic life full time.
He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain.
When Colmcille is excommunicated for taking up arms, he sails to Iona, which is when Ireland began exporting its monastic tradition. Saints, censors and satire
Burial in monastic ground was valued because of the importance of prayer in sustaining memory of the dead.
It was a sunless afternoon, and the picture was all in monastic shades of black and white and ashen grey: the sick under their earth-coloured blankets, their livid faces against the pillows, the black dresses of the women (they seemed all to be in mourning) and the silver haze floating out from the little acolyte's censer. Fighting France
Cathedrals which were not monastic foundations, and collegiate churches, were served by secular clergy, the canons or prebendaries, who constituted the capitular body or chapter.
On a small, precarious headland the faint traces of a monastic cell can be seen.
Adventurous young men tried their swords in the East, banished men there sought to recover their fame, the excommunicate strove to win pardon by his sword, or the forgiven to expiate his past crime; and, besides these irregular aids, the two military and monastic orders of Templars and Hospitallers were constantly fed by supplies of young nobles trained to arms and discipline in the numerous commanderies and preceptories scattered throughout the West. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
Like the monastics and mystics at their best, Bondi has a gift for seeing God everywhere.
Is monasticism a purer search for God or only a way of life some people need?
State as the expression of her ‘other-worldly’ sentiment, then monasticism has indeed conquered in her; but if we see, in the manner in which she to-day maintains this attitude, an essential secularisation, then it is precisely the Jesuitic monasticism which is to be made answerable therefor. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
The young Chinese choreographer's dances possess an almost monastic rigour. Times, Sunday Times
In her monastic habit she looked coarse and overblown: the severe lines and sober tints of the dress did not become her.
For the 4th century desert monastics, however, being a zero meant having acquired the virtue of humility.
Chastity is the third monastic virtue, the opposite of voluptuousness.
In this way, travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: On the road, we often live more simply even when staying in a luxury hotel, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. Jason Silva: Oh to Wanderfly (and How It'll Help You Travel)
Rejected by Luther is the idea that some occupations, such as the priesthood or monasticism, are spiritually superior to others, such as parenting.
Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
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
The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West. B. The Early Church
Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
It is very helpful for young monastics to be exposed to the influence of dedicated lay practitioners.
Early Irish monasticism is usually associated with its rigour and has been known to be compared to the tradition of the Egyptian Desert Fathers. Early and Mediaeval Irish Ecclesiastical Art
Weber's texts also employ the typology to distinguish the asceticism of medieval monastics from that of Calvinism.
He was the first, moreover, to establish an extraordinary and permanent tribunal for heresy trials -- an institution which afterwards became known as the monastic The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church
Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms.
It's only lately that women have decided that it was really the women all along who made civilization happen, that men and women are so different that without women as opposed to, say, all men in a monastic order or a farmer supporting his aged father and sons men would be content to live in caves, unbathed, and throw rocks at each other. Mother-in-Law in the White House.
The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast. 27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.
The jongleurs' display of the naked body and reliance on shameful movements further led both monastic writers and canonists to associate them with prostitution and lust.
He lives a monastic lifestyle, associates with no one, and has no personal relationships.
Following closely to this preoccupation with asceticism was monasticism which spread with incredible rapidity.
In other words, we must do here and now what our theological forebears-including our patristic and monastic forebears-did there and then.
As a result the order, founded as a semimonastic crusading society, eventually became a military and commercial corporation of great wealth and selfish aims and a serious competitor of the very towns it had founded. 1. The Teutonic Knights
Many monastic buildings were brought down in the early 13th century merely by a high wind. Times, Sunday Times
In the West, however, most Zen practitioners are not monastics.
Located near to the town centre, the monastically themed bar offers traditional pub grub from 12.30 pm to 2.45 pm.
We heard in some detail about the cursus of the psalms in the Roman breviary, in comparison with the monastic breviary, the changes to this cursus under St Pius X, and the effect of the changes in the precendence of feasts, especially the raising of the rank of the Sunday so that feasts of double rank were no longer allowed to "outrank" the Sunday. The hermeneutic of continuity
And, we ask, was it by the survival of the fittest that Julius Ceasar, [tr. note: sic] one of the grandest rulers of all ages, should succumb under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius: that Paul and Seneca should die by authority of their inferior, Nero; that Popery, rotten to the core and represented by men who would have brought on the ignominous [tr. note: sic] collapse or extinction of every other dynasty in the days of the Roman pornocracy, should survive, while the illustrious house of Henry I. sank away to ruin in the third and fourth generation; that John Hus should die at the stake and Jean Charlier de Gerson in timid monastic retirement, while Evolution An Investigation and a Critique
Copying the works of others protects the solitude of the monastic cell from more intrusive forms of ministry.
There is a very noticeable similarity between the spirit that animated the hierarchical Ottonian empire and liturgical England, on the one hand, and the new French and Burgundian monasticism of the tenth century on the other. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Pamiers, by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region; this document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the monastic inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal power, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienna. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
In effect , said Weber, this meant displacing the monastic - style discipline, self - denial, and ascetics into secular life.
While in the extreme north, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness, the Church remained missionary rather than parochial, in the Scotland of the south monasticism became prominent again under a new order called, in Goidelic, "Culdees" (servants of God). The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
Monasteries were raided, hundreds of monks were arrested, and a new law was introduced placing the "sangha" -- the monastic orders -- under government regulation. Up in Alms: Burma's
Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
And, since many of our records of this time come from monastic chronicles, we of course get a very vivid picture of this side of the Vikings.
So we spent a lot of time living there with this specific community of monks, a monastic household.
The unmonastic retreat of Amurath was that of an epicurean rather than of a dervis; more like that of Sardanapalus than of Charles the Fifth. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
Part in parcel with that movement was the revival of the conical form of the chasuble and fuller forms of the dalmatic and tunicle; something which was particularly seen (though not exclusively seen) within the monastic context of the Liturgical Movement. Vestments in a Style of the Monastic Element of the 20th Century Liturgical Movement
The development of monasticism introduced a dualism into Christian morality, in that it proposed for the ascetes a morality essentially different from that of the rest of the Christian world, the latter being based upon the divine command, and the former upon pretended divine counsels; with this error were more or less affected Lactantius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
While there are three million Hindu monastics today, most are loosely organized.
Now defrocked, he was free from government monastic regulations and duties, and yet he had not freely chosen the lay life for himself.
Nevertheless, in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly, the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one.
He leads a monastic life with very little contact with other people.
A house of Augustinian canons was founded here in 1139, and although mostly only foundations survive it has one of the most elaborate surviving gatehouses of any monastic house.
His running routine is one of monastic simplicity and discipline. Times, Sunday Times
In this discussion Buddhists draw nourishment and guidance from a centuries-old tradition of Christian meditative prayer and monastic practice.
By the time of her death in 1581, Teresa had founded more than a dozen monastic houses.
The saga literature of Ireland which has survived from earliest times owes its preservation to the monastic scriptoria.
He joined the monastic order as a novice, and studied the Hua-yen ching with Chih-yen.
For many, partnership remains cloaked in a monastic exclusivity, as accessible as the holy orders.
Its apparent monastic monumentality is negated by cheap materials. The Times Literary Supplement
Discussion ranges from monastic confraternities to miracle stories and the pious legends of saints.
Its apparent monastic monumentality is negated by cheap materials. The Times Literary Supplement
Rightly, therefore, the Church venerates him as an "eminent teacher of the monastic life" and "doctor of spiritual wisdom in the love of prayer and work; shining guide of people in the light of the Gospel" who, "raised to heaven by a luminous road" teaches people of all ages to seek God and the eternal riches prepared by him (cf. Preface of the Holy in the monastery to the MR, 1980, 153). More from Montecassino
It may be wondered if this is the best solution to the situation brought about by the dominance of the monastic tradition in Orthodox worship.
The only two English antiphoners I'm aware of are the Monastic Diurnal Noted, which sadly does not have the Psalms in it, necessitating book-juggling, and the Mundelein Psalter, which is sadly not really an antiphoner at all. A couple of Office/chant books in English
Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
Established by the monk Tao-hsüan, this school began by establishing which of the several redactions of the monastic regulations that had been translated into Chinese would become the standard.
Less problematic on the cleaning front, owing to the rougher fabric and darker colour, is the monastic habit - cowled brown with a rope for the lads, black-and-white with a wimple for the ladies.
He was a man who delighted in escaping from the business of life into his scriptoriolum - a small library attached to his monastic cell.
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.
Like the monastics and mystics at their best, he has a gift for seeing God everywhere.
Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister.
In an appendix we have scheduled the chief classics found in English monastic catalogues to indicate roughly the extent to which they were collected and used. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
Thus in the ten-century rule of Cluny the library is called armarium, and the official who had charge of it armarius, while by an arrangement which was long and widely observed both in Benedictine and in other monastic houses, this armarius, or librarian, was usually identical with the precentor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
I was going to tell you that my house is so monastic, that I have a little hall decked with long saints in lean arched windows, and with taper columns, which we call the Paraclete, in memory of Eloisa's cloister. ( The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
It was a strictly religious, semimonastic group of single men and single women, whose hearts were filled with zeal for mission work. The Development of Embroidery in America
In large monastic churches it was called the pulpitum and was separate from the rood-screen supporting the rood, the latter being placed westward of the pulpitum; but in secular cathedrals and parish churches there does not seem to have been usually a separate rood-screen, the rood, in such cases, being either on or over the pulpitum itself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Taize is a celibate, monastic community of men living under a common rule with Brother Roger as prior.
This precocious introduction of Rabanus as "puer oblatus" in the Benedictine monastic world, and the fruits that it gave for his human, cultural and spiritual growth, opened up very interesting possibilities not only for the life of the monks, but also for the whole of society of his time, normally referred to as "Carolingian. Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"
Amongst others, not long after Mr. Ferrar's death, a treatise was addressed to the Parliament, entitled, “The Arminian Nunnery, or a brief description and relation of the late erected monastical place called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire: humbly addressed to the wise consideration of the present parliament. Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc
During this time churches had been plundered, pious fraternities dissolved, new monastic vows forbidden, and many religious houses closed down.
And that, fifthly and finally, is exactly the chief offering that monastics can make to the wider world.
The two brands of monasticism differed in their attitude toward the state, and toward the question of monachal property.
I wish that Mr. Montefiore had expanded his book a little some of his most interesting bits are relegated to footnotes, and told us something about the origins of the synagogue and of monasticism, which is essential to the story of Jerusalem, but clearly a non-Jewish phenomenon. The City With the Big Ego
While seldom scholars or even clerics, these monastics turned the desert into a city.
Will they instead design neighborhood parks finely attuned to the pederastic behaviors of unregistered sex offenders in the area, orchestrating a genetically-encoded series of seismonastic movements when one is detected? My Garden Is Telling Me That I'm Abusing My Kids
Homosexual love was important in this period and carried over into Christian monasticism.
He was educated by Bishop Erc of Kerry, and in time became a famous abbot and monastic founder.
For Brendan, salvation is best accomplished through the monastic way, understood as a combination of ascetic practices and liturgical observance.
JOSEPH KOTERSKI, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: I suspect that what he's doing is thinking all the way back to St. Benedict, who was a 6th century individual, who's the founder of Western monasticism, that is the beginning of monasteries in Europe. CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005
In 1565 it passed to the Fowler family, and in 1644, during the Civil War, the occupied monastic buildings were besieged and captured by Parliamentarian forces under Sir Thomas Myddelton.
The vitae often refer to the nuns attending Mass and offices, sitting in their choirstalls and singing the liturgy, or like Irmgart of Kirchberg, reciting the litany of saints. 66 The many mystical and visionary experiences that occurred within that monastic space were often marked by noting the psalm, antiphon, or sequence that the women were singing at the exact moment of experience or revelation. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany

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