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- Monks live together in a community. The house they live in is called a monastery.
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A double monastery (also dual monastery or double house) is a monastery combining separate communities of monks and of nuns, joined in one institution to share one church and other facilities. [1][a] The practice is believed to have started in the East at the dawn of monasticism.
Hermits live alone and when monks have their own cells they can live closer to that lifestyle. Some of the very earliest monks may also have lived in cells rather than dormitories.
- Origins & Development
- The Benedictine Order
- The Cistercian Order
- Daily Life
- The Monastery's Buildings
- Monasterial Power
- Community Role & Legacy
From the 3rd century CE there developed a trend in Egypt and Syria which saw some Christians decide to live the life of a solitary hermit or ascetic. They did this because they thought that without any material or worldly distractions they would achieve a greater understanding of and closeness to God. In addition, whenever early Christians were per...
From the 5th century CE the idea of monasteries spread across the Byzantine Empire and then to Western Europe where they adopted their own distinct practices based on the teachings of the Italian abbot Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-c. 543), regarded as the founder of the European monastery model. Benedict himself founded a monastery at Monte Cas...
From the 11th century new orders began to appear, most notably the Cistercian order (formed in 1098), largely because some monks wanted an even stricter lifestyle for themselves than the Benedictines could offer. The Cistercian order put much more emphasis on religious studies and minimised the physical labour monks were expected to perform. Such l...
Monasteries varied greatly in size with the smaller ones having only a dozen or so monks and perhaps being led by a prior instead of an abbot. Larger ones such as Cluny Abbey in France (founded c. 910), boasted 460 monks at its peak in the 12th century but around 100 brothers seems to have been a typical number for most monasteries. The abbot was s...
Monasteries varied in size and so their need for certain buildings differed. Indeed, sometimes geography dictated architecture such as with the remote mountain-top monasteries at Meteora in Greece or the Benedictine abbey on the tidal islet of Mont-Saint-Michelin France. However, many did share essential architectural features and the ground plans ...
A large monastery was much like a medieval castle or manor house in that it controlled a surrounding area of land and essentially contained all the elements one would find in a small village of the period. In the manorial system of Europe, land was typically parcelled out into areas known as manors – the smallest estate which had a few hundred acre...
A monastery provided local communities with spiritual guidance; very often its church was for wider public use, it gave employment, and its monks provided education, safe-guarded holy relics, entertained the pilgrims who came to visit, looked after orphans, the sick and aged, and daily gave out food, drink and alms to the poor. Monks produced and c...
May 15, 2019 · Monks are of two types: eremitical, or solitary figures; and cenobitic, those who live in a family or community arrangement. Christian monasticism got its start in Egypt and North Africa about 270 AD, with the desert fathers, hermits who went into the wilderness and gave up food and water to avoid temptation.
- Jack Zavada
None of the many Indic terms for monk (e.g., the Sanskrit apabhramsha or the Pali prakrit) mean “single” or “living alone,” though monastics in those traditions—most notably Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism —live alone or in groups that are set off from the rest of society.
In the Christian tradition, monks live in communities under the guidance of a Rule and an Abbot, or Prior. Monastic life for Christians is very simple. Monks live simple lives, we devote ourselves to prayer and any work that is necessary.
We are a Benedictine community of about 30 monks living under the Rule of Saint Benedict. We share the same ideals, and every member of the community is encouraged to share his talents and skills in order to build a community faithful to the Gospel.
