#coenobite

[jim-webster]

The Primrose Path

It has to be said that normally a story with this title would be illustrated by pictures of young ladies of remarkable pulchritude and comparatively little clothing. Indeed, forgive me my cynicism, but I have noticed that the number of people reading seems to increase in inverse proportion to the amount of clothing worn by the lady whose picture ornaments an otherwise bald and unconvincing…

[k00291776]

Disrupt artist and inspiration

As the project progressed so far my idea has really gone through quite a few different avenues of my inspirations . As it’s based on me I’ve used quite a few bits of my own material but I’ve also used things that I find shaped me such as the inspiration for my casting coming from the coenobite character pin head from hellraiser

As well as some of these amazing designers who mix my love of eary anotomy with fashionable art such as una Burke

And her leather work that almost mimics the folds of skin aswell as giving an almost animal feel to her art .

Ron mueck is another big inspiration to my 3ds so far with his dead dad piece

With such real anatomy I felt it really helped with my development of nostalgia almost being your flesh and how I’m a way nostalgia makes you naked for moment as it bears your flesh making me wanna do more with my anatomy. And now I’m looking into ways of really dramatising what I have chosen to decorate my nostalgia with such as my tattoos and piercings to really show that there’s so many layers to how your expression is effected by everything that you consumed wether that be media or otherwise

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Saturday, August 5, 2023

august 5_july 23

THE ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD "JOY OF ALL SORROWING" ("WITH COINS")

The Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (With Coins) was glorified in the year 1888 in St. Petersburg, when during the time of a terrible thunderstorm lightning struck in a chapel. All was burned or singed, except for this icon of the Queen of Heaven. It was knocked to the floor, and the poor box broke open at the same time. Somehow, twelve small coins (half-kopeck pieces), became attached to the icon. A church was built in 1898 on the site of the chapel.

ST JOHN CASSIAN-THE-ROMAN (435)

 The Monk John Cassian the Roman, as to the place of birth and the language in which he wrote – belonged to the West, but the spiritual native land of the saint was always the Orthodox East. John accepted monasticism at a Bethlehem monastery situated at a place not far from where the Saviour was born. After a two-year stay at the monastery, in the year 390 the monk with his spiritual brother Germanus journeyed over the course of seven years through the Thebaid and Skete wilderness monasteries, drawing upon the spiritual experience of innumerable ascetics. Having returned in 397 for a brief while to Bethlehem, the spiritual brothers were ascetics for three years in complete solitude, but then they set out to Constantinople, where they attended to Sainted John Chrysostom.      Cassian was ordained to the dignity of presbyter in his own native land. At Massilia (Marseilles) in Gallia (Gaul, now France) he first established there two coenobitic (life-in-common) monasteries, a men’s and a women’s, on the order of monastic rules of Eastern monasticism. At the request of Bishop Castor of Aptia Julia (in Gallia Narbonensis), the Monk Cassian in the years 417-419 wrote 12 books entitled “De Institutis Coenobiorum” (“On the Directives of Coenobitic Life”) from the Palestinian and Egyptian monks and including 10 conversations with the desert fathers, to provide his fellow countrymen examples of life in common (cenobitic) monasteries and acquaint them with the spirit of the asceticism of the Orthodox East. In the first book of “De Institutis Coenobiorum” the talk concerns the external appearance of the monastic; in the second – pertaining to the order of the night psalms and prayers; in the third – concerns the order of the daytime prayers and psalms; in the fourth – concerning the declaration of renunciation from the world; in the eight remaining books – concerning eight chief sins.       In the conversations of the fathers, Saint Cassian as a guide within asceticism, speaks about the purpose of life, spiritual discernment, the degrees of renunciation from the world, the passions of the flesh and spirit, the eight sins, the hardship of the righteous, and about prayer.       In the years following, the St. Cassian described another fourteen (or else twenty-four) “Conversations of the Fathers” (the “Collationes Patrum”): about the perfection of love, purity, the help of God, the comprehending of Scripture, the gifts of God, about friendship, about the use of language, about the four levels of monasticism, about solitary hermetic life and coenobitic life-in-common, about repentance, about fasting, about nightly meditations, about spiritual mortification – this last given the explanatory title “I want not to, yet this I do”.       In the year 431, Saint John Cassian wrote his final work, “Against Nestorius” (“De incarnation em Domini contra Nestorium” – literally “On the Incarnation of the Lord, against Nestorius”). In it, he gathered against the heresy opinions of censure of many Eastern and Western teachers. In his works, the St. John Cassian grounded himself in the spiritual experience of the ascetics, meriting the admiration of Blessed Augustine (Comm. 15 June), that “grace far least of all is defensible by pompous words and loquacious contention, by dialectic syllogisms and the eloquence of a Cicero”. In the words of St. John of the Ladder, “Great Cassian discerns loftily and quite excellently”. Saint John Cassian, the Roman, reposed peacefully in the year 435.

HEBREWS 9:1-7

1 Then, indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service. An earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary; 3 and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All, 4 which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5 and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things, we cannot now speak in detail. 6 When these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. 7 But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance;

LUKE 10:38-42; 11:27-28

38 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me." 41 And Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her. 27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!" 28 But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

[nicklloydnow]

“Communism cannot be imposed upon the West without relying on an exterior violence coming from the East, just as the Christians could not have remade Europe without the Barbarians.

The socialists correspond to those already tired Christians who corrupted the empire and were corrupted by it.

The Western communists are like those armies of Coenobite Egyptians who assaulted Alexandria, driven by a furious disgust, false Barbarians, eaters of excrement.

The bourgeoisie must awaken itself and overcome its lassitude with a new élan.” - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, ‘Nouvelles littéraires (2 January 1926)

[cassianus]

Living in solitude, I occupy myself with searching the spiritual writings: above all I search the Lord's commandments and their commentaries, and the Apostolic tradi­tions; then the Lives and instructions of the Holy Fathers. I reflect on all this, and whatever I find after reflection to be God-pleasing and useful for my soul, I copy out for myself. In this is my life and breath. As for my infirmity and sloth, I place my hope in God and the Most Pure Mother of God. If there is something for me to undertake, and if I find nothing about it in Scripture, I lay it aside for a time until I do find some­thing. I do not presume to undertake anything at all on my own will and according to my own judgement. Whether you live as a hermit or in coenobitic life, pay heed to the Holy Scripture and follow in the footsteps of the Fathers, or be in subjection to one who is known to you as a spiritual man in word, life and judgement. The Holy Scripture is harsh only for earthly ways of thinking, who rather desires to live according to his own passionate will. Others do not wish humbly to search the Holy Scripture, do not wish even to hear of how one should live, as if the Scripture were not written for us or need not be put in all times. The words of the Lord will always be words as pure as refined silver; the Lord's commandments for them are dearer than gold and precious stones, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb."

Nil Sorsky

[landhermitcrabowners-blog]

Where do hermit crabs live?

Land hermit crabs inhabit the tropics around the world. Let’s take a little tour! Read more at Coenobit Species – an online catalog of all land hermit crabs

[28dayslater]

This new hellraiser is so sexless like… yes there are scenes where the main girl is shagging her boyfriend but it’s just so devoid of eroticism. That’s the whole POINT of the coenobites and the people who use the box they’re sex freaks!!!! I’m not being welcomed to anyone’s twisted mind :( Jamie Clayton is good as Pinhead tho

[ivandurak]

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary.

[crackspinewornpages]

Les Misérables 140/365 -Victor Hugo

131

From the point of view in history monetary is condemned, still no matter, it sets an example what was helpful in the tenth century are detestable in the nineteenth. Cloisters are funeral like, black, filled with doom. Do these women have will, love, live, no. Now upholders of the past deny history, the author has seen the old oubliettes and dungeons. (ah yes traditionalists abide by the three monkeys doctrine)

132

Still the cloister persists in the nineteenth century in spite of progress, it civilized yes, but in the former days. “To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in bad condition,”-”to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present-this seems strange.”p.331 (the slogan Make America Great Again comes to mind) Still, those hold such theories they glaze over the past of social order, meanwhile as we respect the past, we spare it if it consents to being dead if it is alive, we try to kill it. Bigotries and prejudices are tenacious of life it is a fatality of humanity to combat phantoms but still the religious question remains.

133

Men unite in communities by virtue of the right association, rights to shut his door and stay at home. (pfft) In convents men have no rights, a lord equal to a peasant, eat the same, the same cell, no titles or family names. Wherever there is community is a commune and there is a right in these walls they queue in darkness, kneel and pray.

134

They pray to God, the infinite is beyond us, it is within us and there without us. Does it love, will, intelligent is there too, the soul of God compressed of unknown is the conscience. We have duty to labor over the soul to defend the martyr of miracles to admit with foot what unnecessary to remove superstition from religion. (but if you really think about it isn't religion just accepted superstition)

135

All sincere prayer is good, there is philosophy that denies the Infinite and one that denies the sun, it’s called blindness. There are powerful atheists, some aren't sure they are, those that replace Force with Will. To others to deny the will of the infinite is to deny God, negation leads to nihilism. Nihilism has no point, (that’s the whole point) so there is nothingness. “Everything is something. Nothing is Nothing.”.p.334 (then how could it destroy Fantasia) Morality comes out of truth, contemplation leads to action, the ideal. It ceases to be in sterile science and the philosophy becomes religion. Progress is the good, the ideal, God. “we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two forces which are their two motors: faith and love.”p. 335

136

History and Philosophy have eternal simple duties, to combat Caiphas the right to lie apart coenobitism as a problem of humans. With convents it is either yes or no, it is a contradiction of salvation and sacrifice, suffer to enjoy terrestrial gloom for eternal light. (Coenobitism are religious people that live in a monastic community they are not Cenobites from the Hellraiser franchise they are beings that practiced hedonism to the point they can only derive pleasure from extreme pain)

137

We blame the church but honor the thoughtful man, faith is necessary for man, invisible labor of faith, those that pray for those that don’t. (yes thoughts and prayers are appreciated but could you actually physically help) The nineteenth century souls are little elevated, the monastery is reunification, a cloister does not seem liberating but those women turn to light we cannot see. (yes that’s nice and all but can we get back to the plot now)

BOOK EIGHT CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITED THEM

138

To Fauchelevent it appeared Madeliene fell from the sky and he thought about what he said of staying as neither slept. Valjean was on the run and had to remain, it’s the safest and most dangerous place. (yes nuns are less likely to turn him in but it will be noticed that a strange man is in a nunnery) Fauchelevent understood nothing of what was going on, how Madeliene got there with a child, he knows nothing of what occurred in M. sur. M (that’s what they called the town) but one doesn't question a saint and surmised Madeliene became bankrupt and is pursued by creditors and sought refuge. Madeliene saved his life so it's his turn now. “After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? Just the once. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same.”p.338 (Fauchelevent is all he saved me I don’t care if he is a criminal I’d save him too in contrast to Javert’s black white obey the law outlook)

But to keep him in the convent, all his life he was an egoist but these years in the convent changed his personality to good actions. He built his business in trickery and cunning that still lingered but possessed a quality that stopped him from being wicked. In the morning the two men talked, Valjean and Cosette had to stay in the chamber as today a nun was dying, but tomorrow they could be found. There are girls here and as Valjean thought of Cosette’s education Fauchelevent thought of them being discovering. In order to stay Valjean had to get out and return.

Fauchelevent believes he fell from the sky by God into a women’s convent by mistake. Leave with the child through the service door during the funeral and return tomorrow. Valjean watches Cosette sleeping as Fauchelevent goes on about the funerary process until the Prioress signals for him.

139

Blemeur waited for him and Fauchelevent has a request of her and spun a story about his age and infirmaries, his great work in the garden, he needs his brother to help him who has a daughter who might become a nun.  

140

The Prioress leaves and returns, the stone in the chapel needs to be raised for the vault, another man is needed. No other man but Fauchelevent is allowed to enter the dead room. During her death Mother Crucifixion (yes that’s her name) gave her last commands, the dead must be obeyed, she will be buried in the coffin she slept in for twenty years and buried in the vault under the alter it is forbidden so must stay secret. (again in contrast to Javert another person is all we must do what is right even if it is against the rules because this is the right thing to do)

Benoit was the patriarch of Mont-Cassin a founder of Saintete Claustrale, an order in existence for fourteen hundred years. Blemeur continued that we live in a time of confusion, people do not know the difference of Bernard who dominated the Catholics and the one of the fourteenth century and blasphemy to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI to Christ. Religion is attacked because of bad priests, (well you hide the bad apples in the bushels and put the wolves in a different fold of sheep) persecute the saints and shut their eyes to the truth, darkness rules. (I just finished reading His Dark Materials this is more enthralling than the last book)

Does Fauchelevent understand, yes, he’ll need a six-foot lever for it. Fauchelevent says his brother is good at strong jobs, she gives him his orders for tonight. She’s pleased with him and tells him to bring his brother and niece after the burial. (I like to think Blemeur had an inkling of what was going on but was all I’ll keep quiet if you keep quiet)

NEXT

[jamnsketch]

You can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything.

[therollinggirl]

As your local "read the book that Clive Barker wrote and turned into Hellraiser" person I want to remind everyone that canonically the coenobites are genderless and go by it/it's pronouns.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (May 9)

St. Pachomius can justifiably be called the Founder of Cenobitic Monasticism, monks who live in community.

Even though St. Antony the Great was the first to go into the desert to live a life of seclusion pursuing evangelical perfection, he lived a heremitic life, that is, a primarily solitary life.

Pachomius first started out as a hermit in the desert, like many of the other men and women in the third and fourth centuries who sought the most radical expression of Christian life.

There, he developed a very strong bond of friendship with the hermit Palemon.

One day during prayer, he had a vision in which he was called to build a monastery.

He was told in the vision that many people, who were eager to live an ascetic life in the desert but were not inclined to the solitary life of a hermit, would come and join him.

His hermit friend, Palemon, helped him to build the monastery and Pachomius insisted that his cenobites were to aspire to the austerity of the hermits.

However, Pachomius knew that his idea was a radical one, because most of the men who came to live in his monastery had only ever conceived of the eremitic lifestyle.

His great accomplishment was to reconcile this desire for austere perfection with an openness to fulfilling the mundane requirements of community life as an expression of Christian love and service.

He spent most of his first years as a cenobitic doing all the menial work on his own, knowing that his brother monks needed to be gently inducted into serving their brothers in the same manner.

He therefore allowed them to devote all their time to spiritual exercises in those first years.

At his death, there were eleven Pachomian monasteries: nine for men and two for women.

The rule that Pachomius drew up was said to have been dictated to him by an angel.

It is this rule that both St. Benedict in the west and St. Basil in the east drew upon to develop their better known rules of cenobitic life.

St. Pachomius died in the year 346.

NOTE:

Cenobitic (or coenobitic) monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life.

Hermit or eremite (hermitic or eremitic) is a person who lives in seclusion.

[orthodoxydaily]

Icon, Saints&Reading: Friday, August, 5, 2022

August 5_July 23

REPOSE OF ST JOHN CASSIAN THE ROMAN, ABBOT of MARSEILLES  (435)

The Synaxarion calls him Our Father Cassian, chosen by God to bring the illumination of Eastern monasticism to the West. He was born in Scythia of noble parents, and was well educated in secular things. But, thirsting for perfection, he left all behind and travelled with his friend Germanus to the Holy Land, where he became a monk in Bethlehem. After becoming established in the monastic life for several years, St John felt a desire for greater perfection, and sought out the Fathers of the Egyptian Desert. He spent seven years in the Desert, learning from such Fathers as Moses, Serapion, Theonas, Isaac and Paphnutius. Through long struggles in his cell, St John developed from personal experience a divinely-inspired doctrine of spiritual combat. Many say that it was he who first listed the eight basic passions: gluttony, fornication, avarice, anger, sadness, acedia, vainglory and pride. In time, struggles in the Alexandrian Church made life so difficult for the Egyptian monks that St John (still accompanied by his friend Germanus), sought refuge in Constantinople, where they came under the care and protection of St John Chrysostom. When the holy Archbishop was exiled, St John once again fled, this time to Rome, where he came under the protection of Pope Innocent I. This proved to be providential for the Western Church, for it was St John who brought the treasures of Desert spirituality to the monasteries of the West. He founded the monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, then, at the request of his bishop, wrote the Cenobitic Institutions, in which he adapted the austere practices of the Egyptian Fathers to the conditions of life in Gaul. He went on to write his famous Conferences, which became the main channel by which the wisdom of the desert East was passed to the monastics of the West. Saint Benedict developed much of his Rule (which at one time governed most monasteries in the Latin world) from St John's Institutions and ordered that the Conferences be read in all monasteries. Saint John reposed in peace in 435, and has been venerated by the monks of the West as their Father and one of their wisest teachers. His relics are still venerated at the Abbey of St Victor in Marseilles.

Source: Celtic Saints

St John's writings were soon attacked by extreme Augustinians and, as Augustinianism became the official doctrine of the Latin Church, his veneration fell out of favour in the West. Outside the Orthodox Church, his commemoration is now limited to the diocese of Marseilles. http://www.abbamoses.com/months/february.html

St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai & San Francisco felt strongly about introducing Eastern Orthodox Christians to their local, pre-schism western saints. St. John Cassian, abbot of Marseille, France is one of these beloved saints who belong to the common heritage of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. The writing and wisdom of St John Cassian extend far beyond the French region of Marseille-Provence. In the years 417-419 he wrote 12 books entitled “De Institutis Coenobiorum” (“On the Directives of Coenobitic Life”) from his conversations with Palestinian and Egyptian monks, including 10 conversations with the desert fathers. These books provide his fellow countrymen with examples of life-in-common (cenobitic) monasteries and acquainted them with the spirit of the asceticism of the Orthodox East.

ICON: MOTHER OF GOD _JOY OF ALL SORROWS_ ST PETERSBURG (With coins)

We celebrate today...

The Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (With Coins) was glorified in the year 1888 in St. Petersburg, when during the time of a terrible thunderstorm lightning struck in a chapel. All was burned or singed, except for this icon of the Queen of Heaven. It was knocked to the floor, and the poor box broke open at the same time. Somehow, twelve small coins (half-kopeck pieces), became attached to the icon. A church was built in 1898 on the site of the chapel.

Source: Orthodox Church in America

MATTHEW 17:10-18 

10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" 11 Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. 12 But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands. 13 Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist. 14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me." 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.

1 CORINTHIANS 11:8-22

8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 9 Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10 For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. 12 For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God. 13 Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. 17 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19 For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you. 20 Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper. 21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk. 22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

[cassianus]

Living in solitude, I occupy myself with searching the spiritual writings: above all I search the Lord's commandments and their commentaries, and the Apostolic tradi­tions; then the Lives and instructions of the Holy Fathers. I reflect on all this, and whatever I find after reflection to be God-pleasing and useful for my soul, I copy out for myself. In this is my life and breath. As for my infirmity and sloth, I place my hope in God and the Most Pure Mother of God. If there is something for me to undertake, and if I find nothing about it in Scripture, I lay it aside for a time until I do find some­thing. I do not presume to undertake anything at all on my own will and according to my own judgement. Whether you live as a hermit or in coenobitic life, pay heed to the Holy Scripture and follow in the footsteps of the Fathers, or be in subjection to one who is known to you as a spiritual man in word, life and judgement. The Holy Scripture is harsh only for earthly ways of thinking, who rather desires to live according to his own passionate will. Others do not wish humbly to search the Holy Scripture, do not wish even to hear of how one should live, as if the Scripture were not written for us or need not be put in all times. The words of the Lord will always be words as pure as refined silver; the Lord's commandments for them are dearer than gold and precious stones, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb."

[chadsavage]

Coenobite Art Print - link in bio or ShopSinister.com! #horror #darkart #haunted #Halloween #SinisterVisions #hellraiser [Original Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8JkXTFumx/]

[nebris]

Coptic icon of Pachomius the Great, the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism 

Cenobitic (or coenobitic) monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life. Often in the West the community belongs to a religious order, and the life of the cenobitic monk is regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts. The older style of monasticism, to live as a hermit, is called eremitic. A third form of monasticism, found primarily in Eastern Christianity, is the skete.

The English words "cenobite" and "cenobitic" are derived, via Latin, from the Greek words koinos (κοινός), "common", and bios (βίος), "life".  The adjective can also be cenobiac (κοινοβιακός, koinobiakos) or cœnobitic (obsolete).  A group of monks living in community is often referred to as a cenobium. Cenobitic monasticism appears in several religious traditions, though most commonly in Buddhism and Christianity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenobitic_monasticism