What are some of the lessons that the monastic tradition can offer to individuals and societies facing contemporary challenges

Read a brief history of Iona Abbey: the monastery founded by St Columba, pilgrimage to Iona, the Benedictine abbey, the Reformation and the Iona Community. Oct 24, 2018 ... We only accept new aspirants and long-term practitioners once a year in Plum Village after they have completed the three-month Rains retreat (winter retreat) ... We have been in Wagener, South Carolina since June 1996, and are located on a sixty acre parcel of land, which is about 30 miles southwest of Columbia. Saint Gregory's Abbey is the home of a community of men living under the Rule of Saint Benedict within the Episcopal Church. The center of the monastery's life ... Oblates are associated with a monastic community, offering their lives to God through prayer and service. Faithfully participating in the liturgical and ... Oct 16, 2023 ... The cloister is the place of passage between the various rooms of the monastery, but it is also a place of prayer, reading, meditation, and ... Nov 29, 2020 ... Oblates were generally boys or young men “offered to God by their parents for His service in the monastic state” (again from the Benedictine Yearbook). Dec 15, 2023 ... The monasteries of Mount Athos a unique position vis a vis both the Orthodox Christian church and the government of Greece. The Christian vocation, then, is a call from Jesus. We are invited to respond to it by faith, that is, by full acceptance of God himself. May 13, 2022 ... Biologists' understanding of life incorporates animals, plants and bacteria. Traditional Tibetan monastic teachings, on the other hand, base life on the idea ...