They often undertake contemplative ministries — that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another Order by prayer ( for instance, the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N. Y. pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York ).

* Derrie or ' Dayri ' ( the ' Monastery ' date ) — from southern Iraq — these are long, slender, nearly black, and soft.

South Canaan is home to Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary and the oldest Orthodox monastery in North America — Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery ().

Today the crucifix is in the Escorial Monastery near Madrid, where it has usually been displayed in an altered form — the monastery added a loincloth and a crown of thorns.

Conditions of lawlessness in Henan — where the Shaolin Monastery is located — and surrounding provinces during the late Ming Dynasty and all of the Qing Dynasty contributed to the development of martial arts.

* Fürstenfeldbruck — Monastery Church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin ( vault painting )

* Metten — Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Michael ( high altar painting of Lucifer Destroyed by St. Michael )

* Munich — Franciscan Monastery Church of St. Anna im Lehel ( ceiling paintings, restored in 1971 – 1972 after World War II damage, and altars )

* Regensburg — Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Emmeram ( frescoed walls and ceilings )

* Weltenburg — Monastery Church of St. George and St. Martin ( architect and paintings, with his brother Egid Quirin portrayed as an angel in one of the frescoes, high altar, side altars ) ( 1716 – 1724 )

* Weingarten — Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Martin of Tours and St. Oswald ( frescoes )

The documents are named after the place where they were originally housed — the Holy Cross Monastery in Poland's Holy Cross Mountains ( Polish: Góry Świętokrzyskie ).

Velichkovsky's translation was the first to become widely read by the public, away from the monasteries — helped by the popularity of The Way of a Pilgrim, and the public influence of the startsy at Optina Monastery known as the Optina Elders.

The former belonged to the Moscow Patriarchs, and the latter — to the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery.

* In a Monastery Garden ( 1915 ) — at age 40, the hit that made his name.

* Central Rila or the Skakavets Ridge is the smallest part ( 1 / 10 of the total area ), most famous for the glacial lakes — the Fish Lakes, Dzhendem Lakes, Monastery Lakes.

There are two main branches of Tibetan Buddhism here — the Drugpa, including Sani Monastery, Dzongkhul, Stagrimo and Bardan Monastery-all loosely affiliated with Stakna in the Indus valley.

At the end of his life, he entrusted the leadership of the monastery to his closest disciple, Dalmatus — who was later himself glorified ( canonized as a saint )— after whom the monastery came to be known as the Dalmatian Monastery.

The chief historic monuments of Gorodets — the Trinity Cathedral ( 1644 ), St. Nicholas Church ( 1672 ), and Feodorovsky Monastery, associated with the famous icon of the same name — were destroyed by the Communists.

The Ipatiev Monastery ( Ипатьевский монастырь in Russian )— sometimes translated into English as Hypatian Monastery — is a male monastery, situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

However, since Cardinal Quignonez's attempt to reform the Breviary employed this principle — albeit with no regard to the traditional scheme — such notions had floated around in the western Church, and can particularly be seen in the Paris Breviary.

He appears nevertheless, to have been resigned to being unable for the present to establish in parishes the weekly practice of receiving Communion ; so he restructured the service so as to allow ante-Communion as a distinct rite of worship — following the Communion rite through the readings and offertory, as far as the intercessory " Prayer for the Church Militant ".

As it was the custom in the Orthodox Church, he was baptized with one of his middle names — Theodor, translated into Ukrainian as Bohdan.

* Joseph Smith — History: a first-person narrative of Joseph Smith's life before the founding of the Church.

" ( Church Manual, page 41 ) She also wrote: " The cardinal points of Christian Science cannot be lost sight of, namely — one God, supreme, infinite, and one Christ Jesus.

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It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

No special ceremonial was devised to celebrate Christian marriage — despite the fact that the Church had produced liturgies to celebrate the Eucharist, Baptism and Confirmation.

Decisions of Catholic Church councils — in particular, those of the Council of Tours ( 1163 ) and of the Third Council of the Lateran ( 1179 )— had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

The early Church in the post-apostolic period was much more involved in " defending its frontiers against alternative soteriologies — either by defining its own position with greater and greater exactness, or by attacking other religions, and particularly the Hellenistic mysteries.

The text of Official Declaration — 1 has been included in every LDS Church printing of the Doctrine and Covenants since 1908.

Thus Jerome acknowledged the principle by which the canon was settled — the judgment of the Church, rather than his own judgment or the judgment of Jews, though he wondered why one would sanction the version of a heretic and judaizer.

* Sacrament of the Eucharist — Catechism of the Catholic Church

Ezekiel is commemorated as a saint in the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church — and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite — on July 21 ( for those churches which use the traditional Julian Calendar, July 21 falls on August 3 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

There is an essentially political disagreement over the autocephaly of one of the churches — the Orthodox Church in America.

St. Thomas Aquinas, a prominent doctor of the Catholic Church, was the first to write a full treatment of the relationship, differences, and similarities between faith — an intellectual assent — and reason, predominately in his Summa Theologica, De Veritate, and Summa contra Gentiles.

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

On what had been the culminating day of the Lemuralia, May 13 in 609 or 610 — the day being recorded as more significant than the year —, Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs, and the feast of that dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres has been celebrated at Rome ever since.