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Communal Monasticism

Communal Monasticism. St Pachomius. Pachomian monasteries Pachomian Rules. Monasticism in the West: St Benedict Monastic communities in the US today. Apa Menos is a friend of God. St. Pachomius (290-346). Founded a monastery at Tabenninsi in Egypt about 320 AD

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Communal Monasticism

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  1. Communal Monasticism St Pachomius. Pachomian monasteries Pachomian Rules. Monasticism in the West: St Benedict Monastic communities in the US today. Apa Menos is a friend of God

  2. St. Pachomius (290-346) • Founded a monastery at Tabenninsi in Egypt about 320 AD • Wrote the first monastic rule Pachomius & David of Thessalonica (right)

  3. Main architectural features of Pachomius’s monastery • Enclosing wall • Gate-house • Guest-house • Assembly Hall (church or synaxis) • Refectory with Kitchen • Hospital • Several houses with cells for monks

  4. Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.

  5. Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.

  6. Monastery of Anba Hatre in Egypt

  7. Anba Hatre. Plan of the monastery.

  8. Principal Church (11th c.; remains)

  9. A Cell with Stone Beds

  10. The Father of Western Monasticism: St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547) Monastic vows: • Poverty • Chastity • Obedience • (Stability)

  11. Monte Cassino, Liri Valley, Italy

  12. Monte Cassino, Main Basilica (17-18th c.)

  13. Monasteries as vehicles of culture

  14. Monasteries in the US Today: • Cistercian (Trappist) Assumption Abbey for men in Ava, Missouri: http://assumptionabbey.org • Cistercian (Trappist) New Melleray Abbey for men in Dubuque, Iowa: http://www.newmelleray.org/index.html • Our Lady of the Mississippi monastery for women in Dubuque, Iowa: http://www.mississippiabbey.org

  15. Taize

  16. http://www.contemplation.com/Hermitage/community.html http://www.chartreux.org/

  17. OT Patriarchs with the souls of the righteous in their hands

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