Thelonious Monk

Anita Brown: Wonderful! Wonderful young adult of Eastside community…. Thank you all for enlightening us, we have heard powerful, unforgettable things. Thank you all! Stand Eastside… stand and show love for our 19 young adults! You may be seated, God is good….. We love you all! Next we have the candle lighting part of our ceremony, than the oath of the adulthood, then our banquet dinner. Music will be provided by your own Soulful Delight. All parents of the nineteen are asked to see Mrs. Betty…

In The Almond Tree by Michelle Corasanti, one main symbol is present throughout the book. This main symbol is the almond tree. The almond tree transitions from different representation as the characters and ideas evolve. A Palestinian family, known as Ichamd and his family, experienced the presence of the tree throughout their hardships. Within the book, the almond tree is a recurring symbol that represents hope, survival, and shelter. Foremost, the almond tree represents itself as hope. During…

The seventeenth-century Gothic novel is associated with the combination of the supernatural realm and Romanticism. Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, is an attempt to critique the seventeenth-century Gothic novel by identifying Catherine’s sensibility through her over fascination and addiction to reading—such as Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho. Austen utilizes Catherine’s obsession with novels as a means to highlight how such fascination has caused Catherine to become naïve and…

This shelters the people from confining to the worlds’ ways. The only person to break this vow would be the monk. Chaucer says, “Was all his fun, he spared for no expense.” (Line 196). The monk spared no time for God, or doing things for God. He had all of his fun and didn’t focus at all on Christ alone. The vow of stability was not broken as much as the other vows. This next vow is obeyed and broken…

The Autobiography of Guibert: Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy is divided into three separate books, each book conveying a different concept. The first book consists of Gibert life from youth to adulthood, in addition to a conversation with God throughout the chapters. The second book consists of history of the monastery that he lived in. The third book gives a detail description of the uprising near Laon. Guibert structured his autobiography so each book would convey a different aspect of life while…

The Canterbury tales clearly illustrates that the institutional church was still a very prominent and established symbol of importance in England around the 1400’s. However, a more prominent theme in the Canterbury Tales is that the Church was in a corrupt state. The Institutional church is well represented in the Canterbury tales. The book, in its entirety, is based around religion because the book is a tale of 29 pilgrims, and the stories they tell to entertain one another on their journey to…

people and to keep some distance while preaching the Gospel. Along with that, all preachers are directly commanded to carry no money of any kind, only food, clothing, books, and any other necessary objects to preach. They are an order of impoverished monks in the image of the apostles…

as monks who are involved in monasteries. According to Bishop, “Monasticism was to become a powerful force in the Christianizing of northern and eastern Europe” (Bishop 144). Monasticism was used to insure the monks live in a religious devotional life and this included three vows. The vows that each monk took was poverty, chastity, and obedience. The reason for these vows is to keep monks from the temptations in life and to keep their attention on the matters of the spirit (Bishop 144). Monks…

The life of a Benedictine monk is based on one thing necessary: quaerere Deum which means to seek God. Some of the first Benedictine monks where living in Monte Cassino in the middle of the 6th century, living under the Rule of St. Benedict himself. By the end of the 10th century, the Rule of Benedict was used mainly through England. The Benedictine monks where also called the black monks. A typical here day begins at 3:10 a.m. with the wake-up bell and after a small cup of coffee, we make our…

From the way Lanfranc describes the meticulous duties of monks and the specificities regarding punishment, The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc reveal the strict and rigid nature of monastic life in the Middle Ages; or at least in eleventh century England. Part of this rigidness comes from the first part of the constitutions on “Liturgical Directory,” where Lanfranc describes the regular duties of monks during certain days and months (xxxviii). Although monasteries had no clocks…