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- noun Plural form of
monastic .
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Here are the words from my source to the hymn sung at Vespers on the feast days of monastics, which is quite similar in content.
Archive 2008-07-01 bls 2008
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Here are the words from my source to the hymn sung at Vespers on the feast days of monastics, which is quite similar in content.
July 11, Benedict of Nursia bls 2008
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This view is maintained, for example, in the love of God by those among us who are truly called monastics, and in the love of wisdom by all those who have stood out among men as sincere philosophers.
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The monastics should be the ones who know this best.
The Buddhist Channel 2010
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Fearless Mountain Newsletter is the latest offering from those digital - and design-savvy monastics at Abhayagiri, a monastery in the Thai Forest tradition of Ajahn Chah, nestled in the hills of beautiful Redwood Valley, CA.
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From ales and liqueurs, cheeses, jams and jellies, to icons, incense and candles, there are many products that both parish and home alike can acquire to support them, while also raising awareness about our monastics and monasteries.
Monastic Retreat in County Waterford: Thoughts on Fostering the Monastic and Liturgical Life 2009
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In Japan, of course, monks and nuns do not practice together and male monastics are, to this day, the ones who really count.
Norman Fischer: For Full Inclusion of Women in American Soto Zen Buddhism and All Religions Norman Fischer 2010
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Tara Doyle, senior lecturer and director of Emory's Tibetan Studies Program in Dharamsala, India, says this "systematic inferior treatment of female monastics throughout Buddhist history" meant less food, education and other resources for nuns.
April L. Bogle: Her Holiness: Is the Time Right for a Female Dalai Lama? April L. Bogle 2010
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Arising out of different church communities, these Red Letter Christians are variously labeled as 'progressives,' 'Emergents,' 'new evangelicals' and 'new monastics.'
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: America's Next Revival Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 2011
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Arising out of different church communities, these Red Letter Christians are variously labeled as 'progressives,' 'Emergents,' 'new evangelicals' and 'new monastics.'
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: America's Next Revival Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 2011
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