Questions tagged [monasticism]
Life and spirituality of monks and nuns.
33
questions
2
votes
1
answer
232
views
Why do some Lutheran churches have monasteries while others don't?
Several Lutheran church bodies, including some of the Lutheran churches in Germany and Scandinavia, have active monastic communities. However, other Lutheran churches, including ELCA and LCMS in ...
- 53
4
votes
1
answer
653
views
Where did Christian monasteries originate from?
How did the Christians get the idea to create monasteries? As far as I know, monasteries, monks and nuns did not exist in the religion Jesus was born into and he did not ask, he did not even talk ...
- 159
2
votes
1
answer
81
views
What is the source of Pascal's quotation on staying home peacefully?
Pascal wrote in Pensées S168/L136:
all of man's unhappiness arises from one thing alone, that he does not know how to remain at rest in a room. A man that has enough to live, if he knew how to remain ...
- 40.8k
4
votes
2
answers
119
views
Religious congregations of non-virgins?
P. Lafetur, O.P., in The Virtues and States of Life by A. M. Henry, O.P. (1957), p. 583 says:
[…] loss of virginity make the consecration to
God which follows it something different from that of ...
- 40.8k
1
vote
1
answer
180
views
Has any monk or nun ever left a monastery to be married to a king or queen?
Has any monk or nun in Church history ever left a monastery to be married to a king or queen?
St. Margaret of Hungary, according to Short Lives of the Dominican Saints p. 16, almost did:
Her parents ...
- 40.8k
3
votes
3
answers
1k
views
What Bible verses support Monasticism?
Monasticism (or the practice of being a monk) is practiced by the Catholics and Eastern Orthodox faiths. It is not as much practiced by protestant groups.
Are there any verses that support Monasticism?...
- 5,299
-2
votes
1
answer
87
views
What has changed that cloistered catholic monks (as communities) are not advancing technical sciences and engineering today?
Cistercians and other catholic monks are notorious for the introduction of the advancements in technical sciences and agriculture in the Medieval ages. But I recently saw movie about Athon monks (...
- 607
1
vote
1
answer
70
views
St. Gregory the Great quote on how intellectual work is physically exhausting?
Years ago I read a quote—by St. Gregory the Great or St. Jerome, I think—on how intellectual work is physically exhausting. Who said that and in what work?
- 40.8k
5
votes
1
answer
111
views
Which is the distribution of daily hours for Western (e.g. Benedictine) monks?
I've been searching for some reference to the "usual" distribution of hours in terms of sleep, prayer, reading, working, etc for Western monasteries but cannot find a good reference online. ...
- 4,682
5
votes
3
answers
306
views
Intellectual work of monks as a way to getting closer to God by understanding better His creation?
Lately I have been very interested in the different ways that Christianity (and religion in general) has to address all the different ways that we as mere mortal humans have to get closer to God. In ...
- 151
1
vote
1
answer
308
views
Can a female Religious (a nun or sister) be expelled from her order after a hysterectomy?
I wanted to ask if a female Religious (ie, a nun or sister) who has become sick and had a hysterectomy, can she be expelled and sent home before her perpetual vows and under which grounds?
- 21
5
votes
1
answer
640
views
How common is the practice of praying for the devil?
On The Patristics Project website there is a blog post entitled "Patristic Universalism", which provides quotes from twelve of the ancient Christian writers popularly known as the Church Fathers, ...
- 378
4
votes
2
answers
403
views
Who were the Black Canons on the Augustinian Priory of Inchmahome in Scotland?
Recently, while on holiday in Scotland, I visited the ruins of the Augustinian Priory of Inchmahome on the Lake of Mentieth, near to Aberfoyle and Loch Lomond. The priory was founded in 1238 by the ...
- 32.6k
3
votes
2
answers
162
views
Killing in the Benedictine Rule
Is the injunction in the Benedictine rule “Deinde non occidere” interpreted to forbid the killing of brutes, or only humans?
- 31
3
votes
1
answer
117
views
If a monk dies after been married to a woman, who inherits his legacy?
If a monk, after he made his eternal vows, quits his monastery and marries a woman by law and his 'marriage' with the monastery is not annulled by the pope, to which is his legacy (capital) going when ...
- 1,053