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Dedicated to the [[Holy Trinity]], it was an active [[Hesychasm|hesychast]] monastic community of the [[Second Bulgarian Empire]] since the [[Category:Places associated with hesychasm]] ...

| school_tradition = [[Hesychasm]] ...lestine]] and Greece early in his life and was acquainted there with the [[Hesychasm|Hesychast]] movement.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book|last=Latourette|first=Kenn ...

...[[Transcendence (religion)|transcends]] the intellect, often in accordance with religious practices such as [[meditation]] or [[contemplative prayer|prayer ...e Plassan - Devotion (Contemplation) - Walters 3745.jpg|left|thumb|A woman places [[rosary]] beads on a devotional image mounted on the wall beside her bed.< ...

| school_tradition = [[Apophatic theology]], [[hesychasm]] ...41, (2) with the monk [[Gregory Akindynos]] between 1341 and 1347, and (3) with the philosopher [[Nicephorus Gregoras|Gregoras]], from 1348 to 1355. His th ...

...Camaldoli]]. St. Romuald built on this land five cells for hermits, which, with the monastery at Fontebuono, built two years later, became the famous mothe ...eflected in the nearly contemporary Byzantine ascetic practice known as [[Hesychasm]]. ...

...knowledge of Christ]].<ref name="ReferenceA">''Teaching World Civilization with Joy and Enthusiasm'' by Benjamin Lee Wren 2004 {{ISBN|0-7618-2747-1}} page By meditation I mean prolonged reasoning with the understanding, in this way. We begin by thinking of the favor which God ...

|attributes = Clothed as a [[monk]], sometimes with an [[Abbot]]'s [[paterissa]] (crozier), sometimes holding a copy of his ''L ...aims. The final rung of the ladder—beyond prayer (προσευχή), stillness ([[hesychasm|ἡσυχία]]), and even dispassion ([[apatheia|ἀπάθεια]])—is love ([[agape|ἀγάπ ...

...to take simple vows. Even in congregations with solemn vows, some members with perpetual vows may have taken them simply rather than solemnly. ...virgins "sacred persons" inserts them into the Ordo Virginum and likewise places them in the consecrated life in the Catholic Church. ...

...ed as indecisive and inconsistent in his policy in the past, this was done with little regard for an understanding of the context of the conditions and lim ...the capital Tarnovo. Two years later, Sultan Bayezid I captured Nicopolis with a surprise approach from the north of the fortress after two failed campaig ...

...cular kinds of monk, such as [[cenobite]], [[hermit]], [[anchorite]], or [[Hesychasm|hesychast]]. ...tions of [[Christian monasticism]] exist in major Christian denominations, with [[religious order]]s being present in [[Catholicism]], [[Lutheranism]], [[O ...

...Church]]). Christian monastic life does not always involve communal living with like-minded Christians. Christian monasticism has varied greatly in its ext ...e desert, and above all from the story of Jesus' time in solitary struggle with Satan in the desert, before his public ministry.<ref name="ocso">{{Cite web ...

...d that the princes of Moscow had first claim on the grand princely throne. With the benefit of hindsight, we ...empting for the Monomakhovichi, but also risky, as it provoked hostilities with both the Bulgars and Novgorodians.{{sfn|Martin|2007|p=77}} ...

{{see also|Sanctum sanctorum|Holy places|Pilgrimage}} ...''incomplete list and broad overview of significant religious sites''' and places of [[spirituality|spiritual]] importance throughout the world. Sites are li ...

...thodox Church|the institution and history of the largest church associated with Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox Church}}{{Distinguish|Oriental Orthodox ...Churches represent one of the three major branches of Christianity, along with Catholicism and Protestantism.}}</ref> Like the [[Pentarchy]] of the first ...

...n., 1853).}}</ref> Silesius's display of his mystic beliefs caused tension with Lutheran authorities and led to his eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1 ...{circa|1600|lk=no}}–1639), was a 24-year-old daughter of a local physician with ties to the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg Imperial court]].<ref name="Flitch ...

...[[Latin Church|Latin]] hierarchies in the [[Crusader states]], especially with two claimants to the patriarchal sees of Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerus ...the other. The efforts of the ecumenical patriarchs towards reconciliation with the Catholic Church have often been the target of sharp internal criticism. ...

...m because of their inherent transience. On the other hand, his experiments with extreme ascetic practices left him physically emaciated and mentally unfulf ...and [[soul]], and that in doing so, they will obtain a greater connection with the Divine or find inner peace.<ref name="Finn2009p10"/> This may take the ...

...nai]] (locally, {{transliteration|ar|Jabal Musa}}, by tradition identified with the [[biblical Mount Sinai]]; peak {{circa|{{cvt|2|km}}}} south).<ref>{{Cit File:Saint Catherine Sinai.jpg|Saint Catherine's Monastery with [[Willow Peak]] (traditionally considered [[Mount Horeb]]) in the backgroun ...

...s with the [[Lent|Lent of Western Christianity]] and has many similarities with it. There are some differences in the timing of Lent, besides calculating t ...rved in Eastern Christianity), and runs for 40 continuous days, concluding with the Presanctified Liturgy on Friday of the Sixth Week. The next day is call ...

...to the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Euchites]]. The Bogomils are identified with the [[Messalians]] in Greek and Slavonic documents from the 12th–14th centu ...arts of Bulgaria were very likely the first to come into in closer contact with Bogomilism and the young Bulgarian church was aware of the danger. [[Pope N ...