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‘How many people live here?’ I asked, fascinated by the recent exchange and what it says about monastic life
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intimidating assemblage of monastic officials
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Practicing the way of the Tao does not require a solitary monastic existence, or a vow of poverty
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the monastic life, he had a premonition of his own death by cholera
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Chaturmaas with his monastic guru at Ujjaini that year
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one and renounce the monastic sceptre
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monastic life may be advisable
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As a rule, the upper ranks of the Church were relatively better disposed to Jews than the parish priests or the monastic and mendicant orders
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Other than Catholic monastic institutions, these were the most well-known American examples of Communistic existence
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Lansdale, in all likelihood, would have prevented the monastic seclusion into which Diem had entered with the eager help of his brother Nhu and his brother's wife, Madame Nhu
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Although Leoba had joined the Benedictine Order under false pretences, she was held nevertheless to be bound by our Rule, and subject to monastic authority
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In your last wise letter, which I have often re-read by bed-side candle, you commended use of the rod in monastic discipline
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Nem’s formal education had been conducted by the Brotherhood of Light, a monastic order dedicated to knowledge that splintered from the Holy Empire
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For example, some monastic orders have abandoned meditation as a tool for awakening
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He looks out over all the tents and is pleased that so many have come to recognize the gift he has to offer, and therefore have come to join his sangha (monastic order)
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They often regard Them as a great monastic
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contemplative monastic orders, and the seventh cycle would produce the
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Gregory Palamas refers to the Al -holy Theotokos as the first monastic, dedicated in the temple of
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Testament, is a fragrant flower of the desert, another prototype of monastics, and the protection of monastic
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At the time of his or her monastic tonsure, the monastic vows to observe the three virtues –
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True chastity is a revelation of the total surrender of the monastic to God
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The monastic virtue of poverty provides great ease, freedom and a sense of not being bound by the
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Perhaps a fruit of this renewal is the presence and growth of love for monastic life
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The monastic way of sanctification, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is one of the indicators of the Church, which has to deal with a world that is loveless, anxious, noisy and confused
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and even their garments or other objects are sanctified (the sacred belt of the Theotokos, the monastic cowl of
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In the austere monastic rule of St
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about his monastic life: “Neither in our heart nor in our mouth had we anything other than the word of God
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; Pali: Sakyamuni; English: “sage of the Shakyas”), is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules were said to have been summarized after his death and memorized by the sangha
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gramming in the monastic confines of the AI Lab by night,
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Monastic silence was maintained
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Asceticism* or a monastic life are alien
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At his monastic style
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He intended his monastic sect to be every bit as zealous, ascetic and righteous as any future dissenters; but, he conceded, “In my country we have a saying
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They opened the door of the hotel and walked out into a street filled with people dressed in Nepalese garb, some in Buddhist monastic robes, and a few in Western clothing
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Fortunately, they were relieved to see that their monastic guide continued right past the dilapidated guesthouse to a very new building
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The whole experience took on the ambience of a wedding, funeral, Bar / Bat Mitzvah, confirmation, ordination, profession of monastic vows, and Baptism
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Francis wondered about the tradition of taking boys and girls at so young an age into monastic life
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Drums thundered through the monastic compound
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In the Tibetan monastic tradition, the monastic person in formation learns about the teachings of the Buddha, the Scriptures, and other holy books partly by debating about them in small groups
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The nun had grown up in Switzerland, became a Buddhist, and moved to this monastery some twenty-five years ago upon entering monastic life
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This monastic community was founded in the year 1409 and is one of the most spectacular sights in all of Tibet
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During the Cultural Revolution, however, much damage was done to the monastic complex
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One more shake of the Jamesway purchased backpack produced the colorful bag handed him by the monk at their earlier monastic visit
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I suppose a Westerner in monastic robes appearing to me in my parlor should have frightened me, but there you were and I was not frightened
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Francis de Sales was bishop of his diocese and had the jurisdiction to permit monastics to leave their cloister to minister to the sick and poor, but other bishops did not seem to grasp this revolutionary concept of monastic life
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One evening after Night Prayer, Mother de Chantal was about to go to her cell, as simple monastic sleeping rooms are sometimes called, to retire for the evening
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Most unusual for that hour, the Sister charged with interfacing between the monastic enclosure and “the world” came to her
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The postulant to monastic life was flustered, and this was rare for her
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Francis had on casual clothing, not his monastic habit
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I remember the difficulty I had in trying to help people understand the new vision of monastic life that Bishop Francis de Sales and I had for the Visitation
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Reveal to her the fruitfulness and value of the hidden life with Christ in God as she lives and studies the rule and vows of the Salesian Monastic Community
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Brother / Doctor Bernard Seif, SMC, EdD, DNM is a Christian monk with private monastic vows in the Roman Catholic and Salesian traditions
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This combination of spirituality and mystery blossomed into his Office of the Dead series of monastic mystery books
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He always felt called to what he considered the purest form of monastic life--that is to be totally a monk and not a priest and he really saw a lot of them as clerics busy running schools, and parishes, and doing very fine work, even going off to the missions, but that a number of them were essentially diocesan priests wearing religious habits, and he felt drawn to something else
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Francis was committed to God and monastic life
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After a brief prayer led by the Abbot, Sister Jane de Chantal read from the Rule: A reading from the Holy Rule of the Salesian Monastic Community
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The monks and nuns live the Salesian monastic life in response to the Lord's call
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An integral part of each monastery is the guest house, a place through which others enjoy and share in the monastic atmosphere in order to renew themselves
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Midday Prayer is a little oasis of prayer in the day which can seem a bit annoying to a busy person but in reality is refreshing and can help to anchor one in prayer life so that the monastic does not drift too far afield from what his or her life is all about
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"You should have seen the looks on the faces of your community members when they came in from their day of playing and praying at the state park to find yours truly sitting at the kitchen table in a monastic tunic," Chantal said
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I wonder what the Chinese name for their monastic community meeting is
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The monastic Office of Vigils in a Christian monastery is a liturgical service held in darkness, sometime before the dawn
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The huge brightly colored stone archway behind us, which marks the entrance to the complex of monastic buildings, was no longer visible
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Soon the water on the little stove in the next room was boiling and my monastic brother was making green tea for us
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As I walked back to my monastic cell pondering the events of the last few days, an older nun walked up to me
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The support of her monastic friends gave her strength once again
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Sister Scholastica was only in monastic life a few years and of a calmer temperament that her sister, Jane de Chantal
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She really believed that God had given her a vocation to the Salesian Monastic Community, but she did not realize that the “death and rising” modeled by Christ that is an on-going part of monastic consecration, would involve so many human bodies
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Monastic communities witness to the fact that there is something more in existence than what the world has to offer, and this silent homily was something the area was very glad to have, especially during hard times
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Monastic life was just one way of following God
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An investigational team, complete with a photographer, and a forensic expert with equipment, including plaster for making footprint molds, plastic baggies, and other assorted paraphernalia, joined the professionals on the grounds overlooking what was usually a tranquil monastic property
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“I am presently living a form of monastic life ‘in the world
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The state police reminded the monastic community that Brother Matthew was a grown man and had been missing for less than twenty-four hours, but they promised to keep an eye out for any strange occurrences that might lead them to their missing brother
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She walked along the edge of the lake in the area she and her monastic friend had strolled along some months prior
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This book is a foundational book for the members of the Salesian Monastic Community
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A short man with orange robes, or kavi as the monastic robes are called, and just a whisper of a belly got out of the enormous car
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The monastic community and friends had long ago realized that monasticism is one single cross-cultural call or archetypal experience, which has been shared by men and women for as long as humanity has existed
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The Hindu monastic made his way over to the oratory for some private meditation before Evening Prayer was to be celebrated
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Two men who served as carpenter and electrician for the building of the new, and strikingly beautiful, local Presbyterian church did the electrical wiring and inner insulation and paneling for the monastic oratory
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Four choir stalls, the podiums behind which each monastic celebrated the Liturgy of the Hours, lined both sides of the room and faced the front where a small table-like altar and ambo, the liturgical lectern from which the Word of God is proclaimed, stood
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The vow of stability is often thought to mean that a monastic must live and die in one place, that is, the monastery where he or she first made vows
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After that, the community gathered for “Chapter”—the name given to a monastic community meeting
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Brother Matthew was missing and a young woman’s body was found on the back five acres, and their Hindu monastic brother had offered to help them
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” Detective Hester continued by reiterating what she had only recently learned from Brother Matthew, “Members of monastic communities own nothing in their own right
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Steve had been in the service and Francis had been through postulancy, novitiate, and the early years of vowed monastic life
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Francis knew only medical Chinese from his vocation as a Chinese medicine doctor, but still understood what was being celebrated because of his years of living the rhythm of monastic prayer
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Francis was intensely aware of the commonality of monastic life throughout the world and throughout various religious traditions
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God called Francis to establish a small monastic community with the same spirit, that of St
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The one time he was permitted to leave on a major trip he went to Bangkok to give a presentation on monastic interreligious dialogue
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He also knew that being in monastic life was no insurance policy against dealing with the ups and downs of life
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Even though the Church requires that the initial vows be made yearly for three to nine years in the case of this monastery, Mutt knew through his daughter that every Salesian monastic novice must have it in his or her heart that these vows would be for life
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Peanut butter was also available—a monastic staple
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In former days, when a monastic answered the telephone in a monastery, he or she would not identify himself or herself, but simply mentioned the name of the monastery
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I know this is not the typical setting for a monastic retreat but it certainly refreshes me in body, mind, and spirit
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The Visitation Monastery, which had moved after living one hundred years of monastic life in Wilmington, Delaware to the Berkshire Mountains of Tyringham, Massachusetts, was just about ten miles away from the Kripalu Center
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Saints Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, a monastic community of women
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Before they began the service, he stood at the ambo and said hello to his companions in monastic life
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The Office of Vigils begins every monastic day
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With all the force of the thunder of the drums that called the Buddhist monastic community on Lantau Island to prayer at three-thirty a
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His lazy, illogical mind, probably decided that Brother Matthew and I were not available for him and Christi so he kidnapped Brother Matthew prior to the day on which our novice was to take his monastic vows
