30 Facts About Christian monasticism

Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship.

Christian monasticism has varied greatly in its external forms, but, broadly speaking, it has two main types the eremitical or secluded, the cenobitical or city life.

Early Christian monasticism drew its inspiration from the examples of the Prophet Elijah and John the Baptist, who both lived alone in the desert, and above all from the story of Jesus' time in solitary struggle with Satan in the desert, before his public ministry.

Early Christian monasticism ascetics have left no confirmed archaeological traces and only hints in the written record.

Christian monasticism wrote two long works, the Institutes and Conferences.

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Christian monasticism was asked to be head over several monks who wished to change to the monastic style of Pachomius by living in the community.

Jovinian was the most influential opponent of Christian monasticism, he wrote a work in the year 390, which is lost, which attacked Christian monasticism and its ethical principles.

Christian monasticism's teachings set the model for Greek and Russian monasticism but had less influence in the Latin West.

Great importance to the development of Christian monasticism is the Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Christian monasticism was and continued to be a lay condition—monks depended on a local parish church for the sacraments.

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, a great renaissance of Christian monasticism has occurred, and many previously empty or destroyed monastic communities have been reopened.

Central and unifying feature of Eastern Orthodox Christian monasticism is Hesychasm, the practice of silence, and the concentrated saying of the Jesus Prayer.

Christian monasticism was called to become Bishop of Tours in 372, where he established a monastery at Marmoutier on the opposite bank of the Loire, a few miles upstream from the city.

Christian monasticism's cell was a hut of wood, and round it his disciples, who soon numbered eighty, dwelt in caves and huts.

Christian monasticism's monastery was laid out as a colony of hermits rather than as a single integrated community.

Celtic Christian monasticism was characterized by a rigorous asceticism and a love for learning.

Christian monasticism assigned 300 to duties within the cloister of the monastery, such as, preparing food, and building workshops.

Christian monasticism received the religious habit from an Irish monk, St Tathai, superior of a small community near Chepstow, in Monmouthshire.

Christian monasticism's establishment became known for its austerity and holiness, more than as a centre of learning, although when King Alfred sought a scholar for his court, he summoned Asser of St David's.

Christian monasticism first joined St Ailbe at Emly, before traveling to Ninian's Candida Casa in Scotland, where he was ordained.

Irish Christian monasticism maintained the model of a monastic community while, like John Cassian, marking the contemplative life of the hermit as the highest form of Christian monasticism.

Irish Christian monasticism spread widely, first to Scotland and Northern England, then to Gaul and Italy.

Christian monasticism was educated in Rome but soon sought the life of a hermit in a cave at Subiaco, outside the city.

Christian monasticism then attracted followers with whom he founded the monastery of Monte Cassino around 520, between Rome and Naples.

Christian monasticism established the Rule of St Benedict, adapting in part the earlier anonymous Rule of the Master, which was written somewhere south of Rome around 500, and defined the activities of the monastery, its officers, and their responsibilities.

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Christian monasticism is experiencing renewal in the form of several new foundations with an 'inter-Christian' vision for their respective communities.

Order of Ecumenical Franciscans is a religious order of men and women devoted to following the examples of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi in their life and understanding of the Christian monasticism gospel: sharing a love for creation and those who have been marginalized.

Additional expressions of ecumenical Christian monasticism can be seen in the Bose Monastic Community and communities of the New Monasticism movement arising from Protestant Evangelicalism.

Today Christian monasticism remains an important part of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican faiths.

Christian monasticism monks cultivated the arts as a way of praising God.