(RNS) — The monastery ... receive sacraments, pray and kiss holy relics of saints in the catacombs —fearing each visit will be their last chance to worship with monks before either the ...

Crowds of visitors have packed the dozens of services at Kyiv’s Monastery ... pray and kiss holy relics of saints in the catacombs — fearing each visit will be their last chance to worship ...

When they had sung their last note, the monks walked two at a time back down the aisle of the church. At the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Bridgeport, life revolves around prayer, the pursuit of ...

Dreaming of glimpsing the Dalai Lama and facing oppression in Tibet, a monk embarked on a dangerous journey through Nepal to ...

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious dispute ...

but for the most part life at the monastery is simple and predictable. The strict monotony frees the monks to devote as much time as possible to a lifetime of prayer. And selling charming little ...

The monastery are usually very spacious. A central building will house prayer room and the main altar. There will be other building for accommodation, eating and staying. During the teaching you will ...

On a clear day this spring, I attended Mass at the Abbey of Keur Moussa, a Benedictine monastery about an hour ... a universal instrument.” The monks pray at least six times a day, in accordance ...

Monks pray during the afternoon liturgy at the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

As a child, Pemba Nurbu studied to be a monk ... Nurbu started the prayer, he glanced over at a screen showing a matrix of cctv cameras watching every corner of the monastery.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...