contemplative order

As a closed contemplative order the nuns themselves were never seen by the public.

Being a contemplative Order, it was not really their main goal to evangelize the country.

One wondered to what extent he sensed the texture of, or was moved by, the life led in contemplative orders.

This is a contemplative order, and we don't welcome the distractions of the outside world."

This active order felt, however, that Rita was better suited for a contemplative order.

The Carmelites were founded as a purely contemplative order, but became mendicants in 1245.

During those years he'd developed a strong constitution, which had largely survived his move to a contemplative order, and his late-life enjoyment of food.

As a contemplative Order, the Sisters rely upon faith that their prayers do good, as they can never see the results themselves.

They pray and reflect regularly, but because theirs is not a contemplative order, their daily routine is not much different from that of other people.

What's a contemplative order?"

"The Salesians are not a contemplative order; they are very active and integrate spirituality into day-to-day existence.

Since 1916, a contemplative order of Anglican Augustinian nuns has been based in the restored remains of the original abbey.

Founded in 1993, this enclosed and contemplative order is under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Is the only purely contemplative order today a house of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in England?

The mixed life, combining aspects of the contemplative orders and the active orders remains to this day a hallmark of Anglican religious life.

Their contemplative order is one of the most enclosed, strictest and silent of the Roman Catholic Monastic Orders.

In 1782 an imperial ordnance suppressing "useless religious congregations" (i.e. contemplative orders) was promulgated, reasserting state control over the church.

When Kate wrote him of her desire to join a contemplative order, Bishop O'Connor suggested, "Wait a while longer.

They are those, such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, Missionaries of Charity, etc., who tend to have more worldly interaction compared with contemplative orders.

At Bourges, she founded the Catholic Franciscan contemplative Order of the Annonciades in 1502.

Its founder had attempted to combine aspects of the contemplative orders, such as the Trappist monks, together with the dynamic orders, such as the Jesuits.

Westfield is home to the Monastery of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a contemplative order of women, following the Benedictine rule.

Turing point in village's history was abolishment of contemplative orders by Joseph II in 1786, because of which the Pauline order had to leave Marianka.

'We Must Not Exaggerate' But contemplative orders are now drawing comparatively more novices, Father Digounet said, "perhaps because that life offers greater contrast with the secular world."

One late addition to Anglican religious life is the Little Brothers of Francis, a contemplative order of Franciscan friars within the Anglican Church of Australia.