Word: monasticism
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But there are nevertheless a number of aspects in which the building doesn't equal the ambiance of the "medieval cloister" with which the Radcliffe News Office has somewhat unfortunately compared it. While the exterior does, perhaps, evoke the "pattern of light and shadow associated with the contemplative mood of...
Much of the difference, suggests Benedictine Father Jean Leclerq, stems from the great influence that monasteries have had on Catholic life. In monastic spirituality there is a strong emphasis upon withdrawal from the world, ascetic practice, corporate worship through the liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life...
Doctor Zhivago. Behind the opaque, frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline...
Monastic & Monolithic. It will not be easy to settle a dispute between two unions that differ widely in tradition, temperament and tactics. Basically, the oldest union in the newspaper business is pitted against the youngest. The 113-year-old I.T.U. looks down on the 32-year-old Guild as an...
Whether the Supreme Court agrees with Colopy or not, he stands a good chance of eventually seeing his children outside the monastic confines of St. Benedict's. Ailing and embittered, Father Feeney has broken off contact with nearly all of his old clerical friends, has yet to induce one...