Monastic Profession
Definition
The title ‘Catechetical Sermons’ addressed to monks implies that ordination to monasticism is tantamount to a second baptism (a comparison explicitly made between Simeon and Theodore the Studite).
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Monasticism As Second Baptism
Biblical References
- Genesis 4:26; 5:18-24 — And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord. When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Eno
- Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23 — for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life. However, by no means eat the blo
- Matthew 17:1-6 (and parallels) — Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain. And he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white a
- Acts 2 (Pentecost) — *Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. And tongues spreading out *
- Exodus 3; 19-20; 33 — *Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. The angel of the Lord appeared to him *
- John 1:3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:2 (creation ‘through the Son’) — All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, thr