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Cenobium means Alternative spelling of coenobium..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative spelling of coenobium..
There were the cenobia, or monasteries proper, where the life was according to the lines laid down by St Basil; and there were the lauras, wherein a semi-eremitical life was followed, the monks living in separate huts within the enclosure.
Psalmody refers to singing or reciting psalms; in the cenobium this was performed communally seven times a day.
We are part of a community, a cenobium, and we are under the spiritual direction of an abbot and his delegates.
The cenobium is the proper locus for the acquisition of virtue and in the nineteenth conference he has the Abbot John [Cassian], who had passed thirty years in the cenobium, twenty as an anchorite and then returned to the cenobium, expound the dangers of the desert and the advantages of the cenobium.
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Cenobium means Alternative spelling of coenobium..
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There were the cenobia, or monasteries proper, where the life was according to the lines laid down by St Basil; and there were the lauras, wherein a semi-eremitical life was followed, the monks living in separate huts within the enclosure.
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