How To Use Refectory In A Sentence
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Brendan and his companions are taken to the refectory for a delicious meal.
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In spaces such as the choir, chapterhouse, or refectory, the constitutions 'aim was to control and guide the experience of sound in that environment.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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On the south side of the cloisters was the refectory; the lower part of its massive north wall still remains, and in it a fine doorway, with a groined lavatory and towel recess, the work of Prior Helias about 1215.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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First of all, the $100 ticket entitles grazers and gourmets to rove around the banquet hall and sample the terrific fare of - as well as chat up - chefs from the Refectory, Z Cucina,
Undefined
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The farmery, or infirmary, where sick monks were nursed during illness, was a separate building, having its own kitchen, refectory, and chapel.
English Villages
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After chapel service, dinner was served in the refectory, and the students went to bed at 8.30.
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The refectorian had charge of the refectory, or "fratry," keeping it clean, supplied with cloths, napkins, jugs, and dishes, and superintended the laying of the tables.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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A new refectory and kitchen will provide a place where pensioners can get a cooked meal daily.
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She sometimes sits at my table in the refectory, but I've no other contact with her.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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I took my place in the refectory at a separate table near the dais and watched the lady prioress sweep in.
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To the right of the entrance into the cloisters is a building containing the refectory, with a Last Supper, by Giotto, and above it a Crucifixion and Tree of Jesse.
The South of France—East Half
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The structure consisted of The Abbey Church, dormitories, cloister, chapter house, treasury, parlours, kitchen, refectory, workshops and stores.
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You share brief, frugal meals with the monks in the refectory, then it's back to your cell to pray - for salvation, inspiration, or deliverance, take your pick.
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Every soul within the enclave came dutifully to Vespers, and supper in the guest-hall as in the refectory was a devout and tranquil feast.
The Pilgrim of Hate
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There was a Rugby scrum in the refectory, and hunting-men cried the "View halloo!" and shouted "Yoicks! yoicks!" ...
Now It Can Be Told
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A big hit with students has been the large refectory, which has a New York-style diner serving food and good-quality coffee, Don's Pizzeria, a Stopgap shop selling snacks and sandwiches and a Ritazza coffee bar.
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Chippendale and Sheraton design which, though fresh from the workman's hands, looked older than the originals from which they had been plagiarized; also I recall a Jacobean refectory table, the legs of which appeared to have been eaten half away by time, but which had, in reality, been "antiqued" with a stiff wire brush.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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Maggie Jones's, with its refectory tables, hunting prints, baskets and earthenware pots, was an agreeable place.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The cars are filling up fast for this special visit to Winchester Cathedral with lunch in the refectory and a special tour, followed by Evensong.
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You share brief, frugal meals with the monks in the refectory, then it's back to your cell to pray - for salvation, inspiration, or deliverance, take your pick.
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We begin with the most significant of these spaces, the church, and then examine the other places within the monastic precinct: the cloister walk, the chapterhouse, the infirmary, the refectory, the kitchen, the dormitory, the workrooms, and the gardens.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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‘We took our meals in the refectory and questioned the monks about their decisions to become Benedictines,’ said Schlaht.
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Then, singing another conductus, the clerks move on to the meal in the refectory, where another ceremony takes place, with a reading and farsumen.
Archive 2009-04-01
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No place — the cloister arcade, chapterhouse, infirmary, dormitories, refectory, kitchen, workrooms, or even the gardens — escaped the notice of Dominican women and their many forms of religious expression.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The band spent the day at school and had lunch at the refectory before tearing into a performance of questionable educational value.
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But here is a Guydo -- the frame alone is worth pounds -- which any lady might be proud to hang up -- a suitable thing for what we call a refectory in a charitable institution, if any gentleman of the
Middlemarch
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At St. Katharinenthal, the refectory is in the north range, but juts out to the east.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The Pugin Centre will also offer meeting rooms, an education suite and a café refectory, as well as the possibility for an East Manchester Museum.
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We were up at 5am for chapel service, after which we trooped to the refectory for breakfast.
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Desar brought two dinners on a tray over from the Institute refectory, and they ate together in Shevek's room.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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But the dining hall, with its mahogany-lined walls and long refectory table, was empty, the epergne of roses in the centre the only sign of life.
Stay Through The Night
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+ (4) The refectorian, who had charge of the frater, or refectory and its furniture, including such things as crockery, cloths, dishes, spoons, forks, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The rest of the buildings - including the library, the refectory, the day room and the monks' cells (from the Latin cella rather than from any notion of prison, they assured me) were all out of bounds.
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The walls of the church, with one tower, still stand, and there are very substantial remains of the chapter house, cloister, refectory, and calefactory.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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More worried now than she liked to admit, Piper extended her search for the Base Administrator to the refectory.
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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
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What would be wrong in a works canteen or a student refectory may be acceptable or tolerable or not worth making a fuss over in a night club.
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But Varian arrives at the long white refectory table having quickly heaped his plate with iceberg and shredded carrot doused in Thousand Island dressing.
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In the chapel, a room sadly truncated by the new entrance hall, the physical evidence of Catholicism had been ruthlessly excised, but the cloister retained its tranquillity, and the large, undecorated dining hall could still properly be described as a refectory.
The Blackstone Key
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While explanatory texts are frustratingly short and few, photographs showing the white-robed monks serving meals in the unadorned white-walled refectory, studying in the book-lined scriptorium and making mustard and face cream in their new workhouse convey better than any script the fullness of experience possible in even the sparest settings.
The Pared Minimum
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The refectory is a large room, with a long narrow table running all round it – a plain deal table, with wooden benches; before the place of each nun, an earthen bowl, an earthen cup with an apple in it, a wooden plate and a wooden spoon; at the top of the table a grinning skull, to remind them that even these indulgences they shall not long enjoy.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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She called the police and an hour later three officers were standing around the bodies on the refectory table.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The ruffians had started a fire in the refectory grate, burning logs dragged in from the woods.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The hutment has two rooms, one having 20 bunks and the other 23 bunks, all triple tiered, as well as a refectory.
Work Camp 11017 GW
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In the end, not only was he not prosecuted, he was allowed to install his painting in the refectory of the Dominican house of SS Giovanni e Paolo without making a single alteration, except to the title.
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Divine Office; but this did not prevent the formation of such menologies for private use or even the reading of them aloud in the chapter-house or refectory.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The Norman refectory or "frater" was demolished in 1246, and the new one begun.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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You share brief, frugal meals with the monks in the refectory, then it's back to your cell to pray - for salvation, inspiration, or deliverance, take your pick.
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He asked if she had brought any answer to his note to Mr. Knight, and she told him that she had left it in the schoolroom, as she called the refectory, because he was out.
Love Eternal
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They were then invited to lunch in the convent refectory.
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Cistercian arrangement, with the cloister south of the church, and grouped round it the chapter-house, calefactory, refectory, and other loca regularia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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We breakfasted in the small refectory of the abbot's guest house on light ale and spiced oatmeal heated with boiling milk.
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Folded into a narrow strip, our traditional Tanzanian sarong (or ‘kikoi’) makes an ideal central dressing for the refectory table; with this in place as an ‘inspiration piece’, the ideas fairly flow from us.
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Maggie Jones's, with its refectory tables, hunting prints, baskets and earthenware pots, was an agreeable place.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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On the left side next to the staircase, there is a corridor which leads to the refectory, the kitchen and six hermit cells.
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After matins (morning prayers), the monks assemble in the upstairs refectory for a simple breakfast of tea, bread, and olives.
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Among the buildings of special interest are the first and the oldest Uspensky Cathedral of the Assumption, built in 1497, the Church of the Archangel Gabriel with an attached bell tower and a refectory.
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But here is a Guydo -- the frame alone is worth pounds -- which any lady might be proud to hang up -- a suitable thing for what we call a refectory in a charitable institution, if any gentleman of the Corporation wished to show his munifi cence.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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When Adelheid of Gotteszell wrestled with the devil during her prayers in the dormitory, she was tortured and thrown from side-to-side, her outbursts were heard by the entire monastery from the dormitory to the refectory. 146
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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In November, CCTV cameras were installed in the entranceway to the College and over the Christmas vacation, further cameras were introduced in the refectory.
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The earliest buildings, dating from the 19th century, feature uneven wooden floors and small, deep-set windows that create the air of a monastery refectory.
