id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bfc2wtddy5aa3exlloy6i3tuye Jason Brown Charged Moments: Landscape and the Experience of the Sacred among Catholic Monks in North America 2019.0 9 .pdf application/pdf 6143 389 67 Charged Moments: Landscape and the Experience of the Sacred among Catholic Monks in North America The monastic presence on the land can give places a sacred character through their what one monk called "charged moments" the sacredness of God was seen as manifesting through of the monks saw land as sacramental of God's creative power rather than sacred in and of itself. land participates in the sacred through particular spiritual experiences that reveal God's mysterious essay, I focused on responses the monks gave to my question of whether or not land was sacred in Speaking with monks about the meaning of sacred, there was, of course, a consensus that God However, to the question of whether or not land is sacred, a majority of the monks felt more the monks that makes the land sacred, rather than some intrinsic property. The community of monks and nuns take the land and make it a sacred space. ./cache/work_bfc2wtddy5aa3exlloy6i3tuye.pdf ./txt/work_bfc2wtddy5aa3exlloy6i3tuye.txt