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| | Monasticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many religions have monastic elements, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism, though the expressions differ considerably. | | | Monasticism in Christianity is a family of similar traditions that began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modelled upon Scriptural examples and ideals, but not mandated as an institution by the Scriptures. | | | In other words, a monk or nun is a person who has vowed to follow not only the commandments of the Church, but also the counsels (e.g., vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasticism
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| | HURJ, Issue1: Silverman, Benjamin, Monastic Medicine: A Unique Dualism between Natural Science and Spiritual Healing |
| | For example, the monastic church was adjacent to the dormitory of the monks as a result of the monks' required recitations of the holy office. | | | Monastic rules were based on church doctrines and historical documents and were required by the church and presumably by God. | | | Similar to practices in monastic infirmaries, the chapel "enabled the sick in their beds to be close to the worship and gain the healing which services, especially the mass, were believed to provide" [34]. |
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http://www.jhu.edu/hurj/issue1/Silverman_monasticMed/Silverman_monasticMed.html
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| | Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In India, Buddhist monasteries gradually developed into centers of learning where philosophical principles were developed and debated; this tradition is currently preserved by monastic universities of Vajrayana Buddhists, as well as religious schools and universities founded by religious orders across the Buddhist world. | | | The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is a religious order, having vows; but, it is not a monastic order, strictly speaking, as all its members live in the world. | | | Monastics, male or female, live lives away from the world, in order to pray for the world. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery
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| | Monastic Spirituality |
| | Monastic spirituality is seen by oblates as providing a better focus for their Christian lives and encouraging attentive listening to God in the silence of one's heart, especially through the ancient monastic discipline called lectio divina, meaning a prayerful reading, meditating and praying with Sacred Scripture (the Bible). | | | Monastic spirituality flows from a belief in a God who comes to those who are disposed to listening, who will perservere in seeking God even when it seems pointless or boring. | | | Defying a simple definition, Christian monastic spirituality is primarily an approach to God in response to God's invitation found in Sacred Scripture: "Seek first the Kingdom of God" (Mt 6:33). |
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http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/scholar/monastic_spirituality.html
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| | That the monastic Sangha is the flag of Buddhism refers to the appearance and lifestyle of the Buddhist monk or nun. | | | Because the monastic Sangha is also the physical expression of the Lord Buddha's Middle Way, it is the only authoritative Buddhist teaching organization and, thirdly, it is the flag of Buddhism capable of giving inspiration in the villages and cities of our world. | | | Thus, in original Buddhism, the meaning of Sangha in the context of the Threefold Refuge is unarguably the Monastic Sangha. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/meaning_of_sangha.htm
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| | MONASTIC LIBERATION AS COUNTER-CULTURAL CRITIQUE IN THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF THOMAS MERTON, an article by Shaul Magid in ... |
| | Renewal is monastic and not scholastic in that it is about living in the uncertainty of honest faith, not the false certainty of reasoned faith. | | | His monastic journey took him to the other side of the spiritual quest, from religion to religiosity, from the institutional community of believers to the wandering community of seekers. | | | The monastic Church is the church of the wilderness, the woman who has fled into the desert from the dragon that seeks to devour the infant Word."(28) |
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http://www.crosscurrents.org/magid.htm
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| | ::: St Gregory's Abbey ::: st. gregory's abbey and benedictine monasticism |
| | Early monastic writers demonstrated their intention to live by the Bible by claiming to follow the apostolic life as outlined in the early chapters of Acts. | | | A layperson in the church with lower ideals might be more faithful to his or her ideals and thus be a more credible witness to the Faith than an individual monk. | | | Monastic writers stressed the importance of the inner journey by meditating on the Beatitude: "Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God." (Mat. |
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http://www.geocities.com/stgregorysabbey/sgabenmon.html
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| | The Monastic Rhythm of Life |
| | Here again, the symbolism of the Holy Ghost is closely associated with monastic life: one definition of a monk is a man drawn from the soul of the Holy Ghost. | | | The Holy Ghost is considered to be the origin of monastic life. | | | It is not only in the Christian tradition, but also in that of Buddhism and Hinduism that it is customary for some to withdraw into isolation so as to achieve spiritual growth through a confrontation with the inner self. |
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http://www.bezinningscentrum.nl/teksten/wim_eng/monastery_time.htm
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| | THE ASCETIC IDEAL AND THE NEW TESTAMENT |
| | This again is an integral aspect of the monastic and ascetical life; that is, a constant examination of one’s spiritual life. | | | But it is in the very nature of daily spiritual life in monasticism and in ascetical spirituality to focus on man’s activity. | | | The monastic practice of celibacy is precisely not excluded by the New Testament. |
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http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/ascetic_ideal_florovsky.htm
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| | The Angelic Path - An Outline of Orthodox Monasticism |
| | Separate monastic "orders" or "congregations" as found in the Roman monastic tradition, are unknown in the Orthodox Church. | | | Quite simply, all those who live in the monastic life are accepted as members of the great Brotherhood of Ascetics, and the same rule is used and the same habit is worn by both men and women, forming an integral and inseparable part of the Church's Body. | | | Their focal point is, as it is for all forms of monastic life, the Holy Eucharist, for which they regularly assemble. |
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http://www.roca.org/oa/66-68/66k.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Benedictine Order |
| | The first of the reforms directed towards confederating the monastic houses of a single kingdom was set on foot early in the ninth century by Benedict of Aniane under the auspices of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. | | | At first such children were always destined for the monastic state, and St. Benedict legislated in his Rule for their solemn dedication by their parents to the service of God. | | | In the majority of these congregations the mission are attached to certain abbeys and the monks serving them are under the almost exclusive control of their own monastic superiors; in others the monks only supply the place of the secular clergy and are, therefore, for the time being, under their respective diocesan bishops. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02443a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monasticism |
| | Any such thing was rendered impossible by the circumstances in which the early Christians were placed, for in the first century or so of the Church's existence the idea of living apart from the congregation of the faithful, or of forming within it associations to practise special renunciations in common was out of the question. | | | Consequently when a man dedicates to God all that he has, all that he takes pleasure in, and all that he is, he offers a holocaust; and this he does pre-eminently by the three religious vows. | | | The monks copied the Scriptures for their own use in the Church services and, when their cloisters developed into schools, as the march of events made it inevitable they should, they copied such monuments of classical literature as were preserved. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10459a.htm
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| | The Monastic Life |
| | The Benedictine monastic life is a special way of living in a religious community. | | | The monastic lifestyle defines the life values of community living, contemplation, and personal transformation and challenges us to a mindfulness that focuses on the right things in life. | | | The Ferdinand Benedictines believe that the monastic lifestyle has great spiritual value for the world today. |
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http://www.thedome.org/sisters/monastic.html
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| | Palyul: About Monastic Vows |
| | Since the time of Buddha the monastic sanghas of monks and nuns have been the primary holders of the Dharma because they receive the teachings directly from the teacher. | | | The main reason people take monastic ordination is because they wish to benefit all sentient beings without exception through the study of the Dharma and through prayer and meditation practice. | | | All practitioners, whether lay or monastic must truly and irreversible turn their mind towards the Dharma and away from samsara if they wish to attain enlightenment. |
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http://www.palyul.org/eng_about_monasticvows.htm
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| | Monastic Studies |
| | Great monastic figures who have been instrumental in shaping the tradition of monastic theology and who have contributed to the wider intellectual life of the Church will be studied. | | | At the heart of monastic theology is the conviction that personal and communal prayer is a primary source of the theological endeavor. | | | This course is an examination of classical and contemporary texts which exercise a formative influence on monastic spirituality. |
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http://benedictine.stvincent.edu/seminary/programs/monasticstudies.html
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| | Daily Life at Gampo Abbey- Monastic Vows |
| | Monastics, like all residents, participate in Buddhist sitting meditation (4 hour/day minimum). | | | The temporary vows are identical to the five vows taken by all residents. | | | The vows are taken within a wider context of Mahayana teaching and are explained further. |
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http://www.gampoabbey.org/life/monastic.htm
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| | Monastic order |
| | Ojai: Pine Mountain Buddhist Temple A meditation retreat center affiliated with the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, a monastic and lay order in the Soto Zen tradition. | | | The Order of Julian of Norwich A contemplative monastic order of the Episcopal Church for men and women. | | | The Order of the Sword of St. Jerome A complete monastic order and its unorthodox ways for your viewing pleasure |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Monastic_order.html
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| | Self-Realization Fellowship Monastic Order |
| | Paramahansa Yogananda established this monastic order in the West in the early 1930s with the arrival of Sri Daya Mata and other dedicated disciples who wished to give their lives completely to God. | | | In the religious orders of both East and West, such vows are the very foundation of the monastic life. | | | As spiritual head of the organization, she has personally overseen the development of the Self-Realization Fellowship Order. |
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http://www.yogananda-srf.org/aboutsrf/srf_monastic.html
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| | Life in a Medieval Monastery |
| | The monastic traditions of Egypt began to be known in the West beginning in the late fourth century, as literature about the lives of the desert fathers was disseminated, and individual monks traveled to and settled in Europe. | | | As a young man he lived as a hermit near the town of Subiaco, and his reputation for holiness was such that the monks of a nearby monastery asked him to become their abbot. | | | The age of Luther and the Reformation caused a precipitous decline in monastic vocations, and it wasn't until the reform movements of the nineteenth century that monastic life began its revival. |
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http://www.mtangel.edu/library/subject/monastic.htm
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| | Monastic Art and Architecture |
| | Western monastic art and architecture, as widespread and various as Christianity, takes its special character from the aspirations of members of monastic religious communities who have turned their thoughts away from the world and dedicated themselves to living under a regula ("rule"). | | | Central to all monastic life were the devotions in the church and the liturgical requirements of the Hours and the Mass. | | | The plan of a monastic church may reveal the nature of the community. |
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http://www.efn.org/~russelln/art.html
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| | The 7th Buddhist Monastic Conference |
| | I, Tenzin Kacho (Tibetan tradition), spoke on a different aspect of “Death” in the “Death of the Monastic.” I prefaced my talk saying that the focus was on the difficulties and concerns of the western monastics today and presented some of the encounters and views of lay Buddhists and lay Dharma teachers toward monastics. | | | After meditation and prayers, we met together and each monastic said a dedication from his or her heart, and then the winds of karma blew the leaves in different directions as we parted. | | | A bhikshuni trained in Soto Zen, her disciples follow the Zen teachings and are celibate. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/gathering.html
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| | The 8th Western Buddhist Monastic Conference |
| | In this same spirit, this conference is open to monastics from all Buddhist traditions and cultures, but is particularly for monastics born or raised in the West, who follow traditional vows, which include observing celibacy. | | | The Western Buddhist Monastic Conference is a forum for ordained members of the Buddhist Monastic Sangha of all traditions to gather with one another, share in insights and experiences, learn from one another, and together look into the issues that are uniquely and fundamentally important to our lives as Western Buddhadharma Sangha. | | | In past years, these Conferences have proved to be a wonderful opportunity to meet anew or meet again in the spirit of sharing with one another in the great experience of both our diversity and commonality as Buddhist monastics. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/images/8thMonasticConference/index.html
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| | The basis for monastic life at Valyermo is the Rule of St. Benedict, a formula for life in community which has been followed by monks and nuns for over fifteen-hundred years. | | | Oblates are men and women living in the world who seek to live out in their families and work something of the spirit of the Rule of St. Benedict. | | | Valyermo, is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery: that is, a Christian community of men who have committed themselves to the search for God in corporate prayer, work, and obedience. |
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http://www.valyermo.com
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| | Monastic Scriptoria and the Transmission of Texts. By Richard Oliver OSB |
| | Monastic scribes contributed beyond measure to the preservation and dissemination of the Bible. | | | Then, as recently, there was a great deal made of the twilight of the tenth century, 999-1001 A.D., and the dawn of a new millennium. | | | By the fourteenth century the making of manuscripts had become a lucrative secular occupation. |
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http://employees.csbsju.edu/roliver/scrip/scriptoria.html
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| | Library of Monastic Spirituality |
| | His magnum opus, this book is a priceless source book of all that he felt important to say about spiritual prayer, communion with God, asceticism, and eldership. | | | In the silent frozen wilderness of the Russian north holy men and women built a monastic and mystic tradition that flourished from the 14th to the 17th centuries. | | | Seeing the places where monastic saints struggled and grew in the Faith brings their words even more to life. |
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http://www.innerlightproductions.com/librarym.htm
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| | Monastic Life Retreat |
| | A conference on monastic spirituality and prayer is given each weekday afternoon by one of the monks. | | | The content and atmosphere of this retreat are focused on immersing the retreatant into the living tradition of Western Monasticism in order to deepen and expand his own spiritual journey. | | | In order to share our monastic spirituality more fully with anyone who feels drawn to deepen his contemplative Life in Christ, we offer our thirty day Monastic Life Retreat. |
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http://www.trappistabbey.org/retreat.html
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| | Being a Monastic in the West |
| | When you wear the robe of a monastic, you are a symbol of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. | | | When people show respect to you, you must practice mindful breathing and remember that people are showing respect to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha through your robe, not to you as an individual. | | | A monastic with happiness, love, compassion and understanding can do a lot for the world. |
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http://www.sakyadhita.org/ordination/ord_west_monastic.html
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| | Medieval Monastic Preaching |
| | The diversity of monastic preaching - e.g., cloistered preaching, preaching against heretics, preaching by heretical monks, preaching by nuns - and a geographical range of monastic pastoral history is studied. | | | Sermons addressed to monastic communities by secular preachers are also analysed. | | | 'This whole collection is illuminating because it brings together information about monastic preaching from unexpected quarters, whether it is preaching by hermits, heretical monks, nuns, the sermon collections of the Benedictines or the sermon-writing of contemplative monks. |
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http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?ID=859
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| | Welcome to Gethsemani Farms |
| | In fact, the cycle of public prayers the monks chant seven times daily is known as the Work of God, or Opus Dei in Latin. | | | Trappists also pray privately at intervals throughout the day, encountering God through the ancient monastic discipline known as lectio divina, or sacred reading. |
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http://www.gethsemanifarms.org
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| | Medieval Monasticism |
| | The great medievalist Jean Leclerq once described monastic culture "as the love of learning and the desire for God," and we shall explore the legacy of learning which grew out of the monasteries, as well as the impact of the Benedictine motto "Ora et Labora" on the economic, social, and political life of Europe. | | | In this course we will study the major texts which governed medieval monastic life, expressed its fundamental values, and which inform us about patronage and the relationship of the monasteries to the secular world. | | | It will be my great pleasure to take this journey with you; together we shall come to a greater understanding of these sources in a way which I fervently hope will enrich not only your historical understanding of the medieval period, but also your life in general. |
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http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/4950.shtml
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| | Pragmatics of the New: Text |
| | The life of the monastic community had been permeated by the technology and the spirituality of writing. | | | The monastic, Latin middle ages were predicted by no one, chosen by no one, built by no visionary hand. | | | Writing is the spiritual manual labor par excellence, and that way of life was threatened. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/sanmarino.html
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| | Monasticism and monastic life |
| | True monastic status can only be acquired as a result of one’s love and devotion to God and one’s personal spiritual efforts. | | | True monastic status cannot be purchased for money, but can only be acquired as a result of one’s love and devotion to God and one’s personal spiritual efforts. | | | The main virtues of a true monk are aspiring towards spiritual Perfection, including intellectual pursuits, caring for others (without being obtrusive), harming (possibly) no one, and self-sacrificial service for the sake of other people’s good. |
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http://www.religiousbook.net/Books/Online_books/Up/Upanishad_5.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Western Monasticism |
| | Certainly the monks had undertaken active work of many kinds but always as a kind of accident, or to meet some immediate necessity, not as a primary object of their institute nor as an end in itself. | | | Only at the selection of a new abbot can the monks choose for themselves. | | | Details of this revival will be found in the articles on the various orders and congregations referred to above. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10472a.htm
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| | Internet Theology Resources: Monastic Studies |
| | Not exclusively monastic, but a wealth of resources related to women in religious orders, women's studies, feminism, spirituality. | | | Not exclusively monastic, but many of the resources are pertinent to monasticism. | | | A collection of important early texts, many of them monastic. |
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http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/monastic/index.html
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| | Monastic Life |
| | Stepping into Freedom - Living Monastic Life under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. |
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http://www.plumvillage.org/monastics/MonasticsInfo.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Cloister Walk |
| | It depicts a depth and beauty of spirituality in monastic life that has survived the vicissitudes of Roman Catholic politics and pomp. | | | Kathleen Norris' magnum opus, The Cloister Walk, has provided the entrance into monastic spirituality for almost as many people as any work in history, assuming, of course, that the people who purchased her book read, mark, and inward digest the meanings contained therein. | | | monastic people, liturgy director, point vierge, monastery choir, monastic women, monastic dress, formation director, virgin martyrs, noonday demon, monastic history, communal role, desert monks |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573225843?v=glance
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Welsh Monastic Foundations |
| | The saint ordained St. Dubricius Archbishop of Llandaff, and St. Iltutus (Iltyd) priest, recommending to them and others the multiplication and assiduous care of these monastic schools were sacred learning was to be cultivated. | | | Almost immediately a great development of monastic life took place and all over Wales monasteries and monastic colleges arose which became renowned sanctuaries of holiness and homes of sacred learning. | | | The arrival of St. Germanus of Auxerre in Britain (fifth century), to oppose the heresy of Pelagius, seems to have given the first impetus to the formation of monastic schools. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15585a.htm
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| | Welsh Abbeys |
| | The Dissolution of the Monasteries was part of the king's policy to establish total control over the church in his realm. | | | Apart from Abbot Wyche, there were twelve choir monks and some 35 monastic servants. | | | Although scholars have shown that the details of the Cistercian constitution were modified over the next two centuries, it was the Carta Caritatis (the Charter of Divine Love), written around 1119, which provided the legislative framework for the order's spiritual ideals. |
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http://www.castlewales.com/abbeys.html
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| | Buckfast Abbey Web Site |
| | Set in the beautiful valley of the river Dart in Devon, England, Buckfast is home to a community of Benedictine monks, who are striving to dedicate their lives to the service of God by living a life in common under the guidance of the Rule of St. Benedict. | | | Benedictine monks make three vows as a sign of their commitment to the monastic way of life. | | | Conversatio Morum (Conversion of Life) - they aim to change their life following the Gospel and in accordance to the monastic ideals set out in the Rule. |
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http://www.buckfast.org.uk
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| | The Rule of St. Benedict |
| | Living in two's and three's, or even singly, without a shepherd, enclosed, not in the Lord's sheepfold, but in their own, the gratification of their desires is law unto them; because what they choose to do they call holy, but what they dislike they hold to be unlawful. | | | Let him, therefore, be divested at once in the oratory of the garments with which he is clothed, and be vested in the garb of the monastery. | | | On the other hand, he that hasteneth on to the perfection of the religious life, hath at hand the teachings of the holy Fathers, the observance of which leadeth a man to the height of perfection. |
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http://www.ccel.org/b/benedict/rule2/rule.html
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| | The Mediaeval Church - Monasticism |
| | He established a monastery at Tabanessi in Egypt which housed up to 3000 monks according to Athanasius. | | | If, as I have suggested, there is no Biblical authority for the monastic movement, how did it come to play such an important role in the mediaeval Church? | | | Gradually others began to join him and he organised them into a desert community. |
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http://www.credo.ndirect.co.uk/monks1.html
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| | Alliance of International Monasticism |
| | Monasteries in Africa, Asia and Latin America enrich their brothers and sisters in the United States with global vision, fresh insights into monastic life, cultural diversity and gospel witness of service to the poor. | | | AIM USA provides spiritual, educational, formation and building assistance to monasteries in developing countries to enable them to be centers of life for others. |
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http://www.aim-usa.org
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| | Cowley Publications |
| | Organizing his book according to the monastic hours of prayer, Raymo examines the strength of scientific language to encounter the divine in the natural world. | | | The brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist continue that tradition in their daily round of monastic prayer. | | | Since ancient times, women and men of faith have murmured prayers at the end of the day—prayers for protection, prayers for peace, for sound sleep and good health. |
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http://www.cowley.org
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| | Mepkin Abbey (Monastic Widsom) |
| | First, to provide a text, ancient or contemporary, that highlights a particular aspect of spirituality or the monastic charism, and; | | | Second, to provide a rather complete reading list for further exploration of what gives life to the spirit as embodied by the monks of Mepkin. | | | Your good father and mine has been promoted, by the will of God, to a higher place. |
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http://www.mepkinabbey.org/monastic_wisdom.htm
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| | Monastery of the Holy Spirit |
| | The monks dedicate themselves to the worship of God in a hidden life within the monastery under the Rule of St Benedict. | | | They follow in the spirit of the founders of Citeaux, as handed on in the tradition of the Order, within a community wholly orientated to a contemplative life of prayer. | | | The Monastery of the Holy Spirit is located in |
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http://www.trappist.net
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| | Orthodox Monasteries and Monasticism |
| | Otego, NY - A monastic community for women on the New York/New Jersey Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America. | | | St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Monastery - Cleveland, OH - A monastic community for women in the Metropolis of Pittsburgh, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | | | Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way, and what their life was really like. |
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http://aggreen.net/monasteries/monastic.html
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| | Buckfast Abbey's Monastic Produce Shop |
| | Whenever you purchase an item from Buckfast's Monastic Produce Shop, you are helping religious communities of monks and nuns from all over Europe to continue witnessing to Christ in the world through their life of prayer, contemplation and work. | | | Like any household, communities of monks or nuns must raise income in order to survive. | | | The sale of these monastic products provides an important source of income for these religious communities. |
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http://www.buckfast.org.uk/monprod.htm
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| | Is Monastic Life for You? |
| | Six times each day, the monks gather as a community to praise God in the Liturgy of the Hours (Vigils, Lauds, Daytime Prayer, Vespers, Compline) and the Mass. | | | How can living and working in a monastic community help fulfill my desire to serve God? | | | The monks of Conception Abbey are Roman Catholic men who follow the Rule of St. Benedict. |
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http://www.conceptionabbey.org/Vocations/Abbotletter.htm
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