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Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns (women). The word monk originated from the Greek μοναχός (monachos, 'monk'), itself from μόνος (monos) meaning 'alone'. [1] [2] Christian monks did not live in monasteries at first; rather, they began by living alone as solitaries, as the word monos ...
Portrait depicting a Carthusian monk in the Roman Catholic Church (1446) Buddhist monks collecting alms. A monk (/ m ʌ ŋ k /; from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) [1] [2] is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. [3] A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation ...
The male religious are also sometimes called the Black Monks, especially in English speaking countries, after the colour of their habits, although some, like the Olivetans, wear white. [2] They were founded by Benedict of Nursia , a 6th-century Italian monk who laid the foundations of Benedictine monasticism through the formulation of his Rule.
Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.
In their quest to attain the spiritual goal of life, some Hindus choose the path of monasticism . Monastics commit themselves to a life of simplicity, celibacy, detachment from worldly pursuits, and the contemplation of God. [9] A Hindu monk is called a sanyāsī, sādhu, or swāmi. [10] A nun is called a sanyāsini, sādhvi, or swāmini.
Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard. St. Joseph's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Spencer.
New Monasticism is a diverse movement, not limited to a specific religious denomination or church and including varying expressions of contemplative life. These include evangelical Christian communities such as "Simple Way Community" and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's "Rutba House," European new monastic communities, such as that formed by Bernadette Flanagan, spiritual communities such as the ...
The keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Benedictine Rule. The reform-minded monks tried to live monastic life as they thought it had been in Benedict's time; at various points they went beyond it in austerity. They returned to manual labour, especially agricultural work in the fields.