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  • Moses the Black ~ A Christian Hercules

    09/05/2019 7:25:49 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 4 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | August 28, 2017 | Florentius
    August 28 is best known as the feast day of Saint Augustine, the great theologian and apologist of Hippo Regius in Roman north Africa. However, it is also the feast of another African saint--one of the great desert fathers, St. Moses the Black. He is known by numerous alternate epithets, including Moses the Strong, Moses the Ethiopian, Moses of Scete, Moses of Abyssinia and Moses the Robber. He was an anchorite in the Egyptian desert and lived in the generation immediately after Saint Anthony the Abbot, that is, from about AD 330-400. If you've never heard of Saint Moses before,...
  • The Ladder of Heavenly Unity: St Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai

    12/07/2015 6:23:34 AM PST · by NRx · 1 replies
    Greek American Girl ^ | 11-02-2015 | Greek American Girl
    The Ladder of Heavenly UnityMoses approached the divine fire of the Burning Bush with the footsteps of his mind bare, completely free from any human trains of thought, wrote Saint Maximos the Confessor. Continuing Orthodox monasticism’s oldest unbroken tradition, Sinai monks still liturgize, shoeless, over the roots of the Burning Bush. On the holy ground where Moses was commanded to remove his sandals – together with all earthly logic – monks turn diversity’s polarizing forces to unity – some of the ways St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai brings Byzantium’s patristic spirit into the modern era as living tradition.One need look...
  • This Side of Eden: A True Feast for the Senses (Westminster Abbey, Hamilton BC)

    03/30/2013 7:14:22 AM PDT · by NYer · 1 replies
    Salt and Light ^ | March 29, 2013 | Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB
    On a hill overlooking the Fraser Valley in Mission, British Columbia is a remarkable center of life, prayer, work, hope, and peace known as Westminster Abbey. Considered to be Mission's most famous landmark, with its striking bell tower and austere yet modern church, this renowned Benedictine monastery attracts thousands of visitors annually. Why do so many people make the journey up the hill in such great numbers? What are they seeking? Whom are they seeking?Monasticism, though still a curiosity, is more and more an attractive curiosity. Monasticism sinks its roots into the real world of God by seeking an...
  • Monasticism studied at international conference in Rome

    06/12/2011 4:00:34 PM PDT · by NYer · 2 replies
    cna ^ | June 12, 2011 | David Kerr
    Benedictine priest Fr. Jeremy Driscoll Rome, Italy, Jun 11, 2011 / 06:26 pm (CNA).- Christian monks once saved the cultural treasures of the western world from barbarian invasions, and now a major four-day conference in Rome is examining how modern culture affects monasticism. “We’ve invited scholars from around the world to share around the theme of monasticism and culture – the effects of monasticism of culture and the effect of culture on monastic life,” Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., told CNA June 10. The conference at the Sant’ Anselmo Benedictine University in Rome is titled “Monasticism between Culture and Cultures”...
  • Turkey Dispossesses Syrian Orthodox Monastery

    02/09/2011 11:51:14 PM PST · by 0beron · 1 replies
    The Eponymous Flower ^ | 02/10/2011 | Tancred
    Catholic and Evangelical Churches are distraught at the judgment on Cloister Mor Gabriel Hannover/Bonn (kath.net/idea)Their great concern about the current persecution of the Syrian-Orthodox Church in Turkish has brought the leading representatives of the largest churches in Germany to a common expression. The reason is the conflict for the property rights for the Cloister of Mor Gabriel in Tur Abdin [Mountain of the Servants of God] in the south east of the country. The recent judgment of the Court of Cassation in Ankara made against the more than 1600 year old Cloister, was explained by the president of the German...
  • The Fate of the Abbey Remains Uncertain: More German Cloisters Closing

    01/30/2011 2:53:09 AM PST · by 0beron · 6 replies
    The Eponymousflower ^ | 01/30/11 | Tancred
    The cloister was founded in order to inform the soul of the way to life. Will their walls receive the dark consecration to serve the cult of the body? (kreuz.net) It is unclear if the Abbey Michealsberg can continue as the spiritual center of the city of Siegburg. The Bonn paper, the 'General-Anzeiger' said on January 26th.
  • Josh Guimond, Still Missing After Eight Years and the Tragedy of "Catholic" Education

    11/16/2010 8:54:59 AM PST · by 0beron · 1 replies
    The Eponymous Flower ^ | 11/15/2010 | Tancred
    It's obvious that the corruption of the young continues to this day in allegedly Catholic schools, obvious that is to many, but not the board, the Benedictine Order, the Chancery, the parents who unwisely send their children to these schools and thereby participate in the corruption, and ultimately a surrounding debased society which has no culture, no sense of shame, no fear of God. We know this tragic story is almost a decade long, but how long must these ecclesiastical charlatans receive the approbation and trust to educate the young with their imposture of Catholicism?
  • Healing From God's Herb Garden: Benedictine Nuns Work with Pharmaceutical Experts

    08/15/2010 9:28:09 PM PDT · by 0beron · 5 replies
    The Eponymous Flower ^ | 08/15/2010 | Tancred
    Plants from the herb book of Leonhart Fuchs from the year 1545. The representation is of high quality botanically speaking. The powerful towers of the Church of St. Michael reach into the sky. They overlook the cloister garden of the Oberzeller Franciscans. Sister Leandra Ulsamer grows lavender, sage and hyssop. The herbs grow faster in the hot summer weeks than at other times so that the Franciscans have all their hands full to bring in the rich harvest. "Primroses and lemon balm are ripe in the early part of the year for our herb trees", reported Sister Leandra. "We have...
  • France: Catholic Monasteries are Growing

    08/10/2010 3:12:07 PM PDT · by 0beron · 16 replies
    The Eponymous Flower ^ | 08/09/2010 | Tancred
    The old liberals command the Church is increasingly without reservation. But the boring mush they produce doesn't attract anyone any more. [kreuz.net] "The Cloister, which young people today are drawn to, is something which the most traditional societies offer." Trappist, Father Guillaume Jedrzejczak explained on July 2nd, to the article appearing in the Catholic daily 'La Croix'. Father Jedrzejczak is the former Abbot of the French Trappist Abbey Mont-des-Cats.
  • Radio Replies First Volume - Convent life

    11/11/2009 9:07:56 PM PST · by GonzoII · 2 replies · 321+ views
    Celledoor.com ^ | 1938 | Fathers Rumble & Carty
    Convent life 1216. Where is there a warrant for the convent system outside your Catholic traditions? There is more than sufficient warrant for convent life in Sacred Scripture. But even were the only warrant to be found in Catholic traditions, that surely would be quite a natural place to seek a warrant for a Catholic custom. Where else would you want me to find a warrant for it? In Totemism? 1217. Perhaps I should call them Nunneries rather than Convents. If the word Nunnery sounds more suspicious and suggestive of evil to you than Convent, then I think you should....
  • Farmers Find Ancient Monastery

    03/13/2009 7:22:45 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 6 replies · 513+ views
    CNN via AOL ^ | March 11, 2009 | Deb Krajnak
    After a group of Israeli farmers sought last year to expand their property in the hills near Jerusalem, they discovered an archeological gem beneath the dirt. A team led by Daniel Ein Mor barely had to scratch the surface before finding the remains of a Byzantine monastery, he told CNN on Wednesday. "The excavation at Nes-Harim supplements our knowledge about the nature of the Christian-Byzantine settlement in the rural areas between the main cities in this part of the country during the Byzantine period," including Jerusalem, Mor said. The church is believed to have been built in the late fifth...
  • Norbertines building a new abbey (Great Voices - You Tube)

    02/23/2009 8:10:16 AM PST · by GonzoII · 7 replies · 314+ views
    You Tube/NewLiturgicalMovement ^ | Feb 22 2009 | Jeffrey Tucker
    They are raising money doing one of the things they do best: sing! The chant is fantastic, and very valuable for anyone who loves the Gregorian tradition, because the Norbertine books offer a slight variation on the Roman chant. They sing beautifully, based on their last CD of Christmas propers (a CD which I just adore), and this one appears to offer a broader range of music.
  • St. Anthony [Of the Desert] (Founder and father of organized Christian monasticism)

    01/17/2009 6:18:02 AM PST · by GonzoII · 9 replies · 424+ views
    CIN ^ | 4th Century | St. Athanasius
    ST. ATHANASIUS St. Anthony Fra Angelico, Saint Anthony the Abbot tempted by a Lump of Gold Image courtesy of ChristusRex St. Anthony (ca. 250-355) is generally considered to be the founder and father of organized Christian monasticism, although he himself preferred to live the life of a true hermit, apart from any community, in the deserts of Egypt. Most of the known facts about this famous "Desert Father' are derived from the biography by St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373), the "Father of Orthodoxy." Now we have been deputed through your affection to write down the triumphs of the blessed man...
  • A Monastic Kind of Life - How Catholic religious communities are trying to attract young .. again.

    01/07/2009 11:31:39 AM PST · by GonzoII · 12 replies · 518+ views
    Slate.com ^ | Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 | By Harold Fickett
    The Catholic Church has always seen the contemplative life as the "Air Force" in its spiritual struggle, as the Rev. David Toups of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commented—a conduit of spiritual power. Though the number of young people entering monasteries, convents, and the priesthood has drastically dropped from the mid-20th century, some new approaches to religious vocations have inspired some young people in America to embrace this idea, replenishing several of the older religious orders and filling new ones. One such community with a young population, nestled in the Ozarks, is a place that could symbolize Catholicism's...
  • A Monastic Kind of Life

    10/15/2008 7:26:20 AM PDT · by ELS · 7 replies · 390+ views
    Slate ^ | October 14, 2008 | Harold Fickett
    How Catholic religious communities are trying to attract young people again. The Catholic Church has always seen the contemplative life as the "Air Force" in its spiritual struggle, as the Rev. David Toups of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commented—a conduit of spiritual power. Though the number of young people entering monasteries, convents, and the priesthood has drastically dropped from the mid-20th century, some new approaches to religious vocations have inspired some young people in America to embrace this idea, replenishing several of the older religious orders and filling new ones. One such community with a young population,...
  • Hermits and Solitaries [Ecumenical]

    05/24/2008 10:35:57 PM PDT · by annalex · 10 replies · 530+ views
    Immaculate Heart of Mary's Hermitage Hermits and Solitaries Can one be a hermit without being monastic? In the Christian world the technical designation hermit tends to signify monastically vowed solitary life. The New Code of RC Canon Law for Monastic and Religious reflects this position, and gives local Bishops the possibility of vowing diocesan hermits with no connections to any established religious or monastic order, Per Se.  Per Accidens, anyone who would be a vowed diocesan hermit will at least have to have some minimal recourse to the monastic and eremitic traditions of the Church.      The founders of...
  • Is it real (monasticism), or is it Memorex?

    02/15/2008 1:52:36 PM PST · by Balt · 2 replies · 74+ views
    The Priestly Pugilist ^ | 2/15/2006 | Priestly Pugilist
    My parishioners know -- because I've mentioned it in homilies too many times -- that my initial inclination as a young man was toward the monastic life; and have some significant experience in that area. The importance of the monastic contemplative life in the Church (both East and West) is still a point of importance for me. That being said, would this add induce you to investigate the possibility of a monastic vocation? You can click on it if your so inclined. I'm not. The basic punch line is this: Our urban monastery, celebrating seventeen years, belongs to the worldwide...
  • The unexpected monks (Some Evangelicals turning to monasticism)

    02/04/2008 5:59:38 AM PST · by NYer · 25 replies · 65+ views
    boston ^ | February 3, 2008 | Molly Worthen
    S.G. PRESTON IS a Knight of Prayer. Each morning at his Vancouver, Wash., home, he wakes up and prays one of the 50-odd psalms he has committed to memory, sometimes donning a Kelly green monk's habit. In Durham, N.C., Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and fellow members of Rutba House gather for common meals as well as morning and evening prayer based on the Benedictine divine office. Zach Roberts, founder of the Dogwood Abbey in Winston-Salem, meets regularly with a Trappist monk to talk about how to contemplate God. Roman Catholic monastic traditions loom large in their daily routines - yet all three...
  • Old Is New (the return of monasteries)

    05/31/2006 8:13:28 AM PDT · by NYer · 7 replies · 403+ views
    Catholic Exchange ^ | May 31, 2006 | Eric Scheske
    This column is called “The Edge,” so my topic choice this week might seem a little odd. I’m writing about one of the oldest institutions in Western civilization: the monastery. Monastic-type living stretches way back. It even pre-dates Christianity, possibly as far back as the Greek Pythagoreans, whose community some consider the first monastery in western culture. In Christianity, the monastic life started with St. Antony. In 285, St. Antony fled to the wastes of Egypt, there to live by himself in an old empty fort. He stayed there nearly 75 years, coming out only twice. People flocked to...
  • Putin on Mount Athos Pilgrimage

    09/09/2005 5:25:43 AM PDT · by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island · 9 replies · 266+ views
    BBC ^ | 9 Sept 2005 | Staff
    Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting the monastic community of Mount Athos in Greece, one of Orthodox Christianity's holiest sites. He is the first Russian leader to visit the male-only community, on a narrow, rocky peninsula east of Thessaloniki, Russian television reported. The trip is part of Mr Putin's two-day visit to Greece. Ahead of talks with Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, Mr Putin described Greece as a serious partner. He said the two countries held similar positions on issues such as Cyprus and the Balkans, and that it was important to press ahead with energy projects such as a planned...