starets
IPA: stˈɛrʌts
noun
- An elder of a monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church who functions as an adviser and teacher.
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Examples of "starets" in Sentences
- The Soviet authorities prohibited people visiting the starets.
- Well, the starets tells him about the Jesus Prayer first of all.
- The souls, hearts and intentions of all people were known to starets.
- As it turned out, the starets had once cured her of emotional sickness.
- He wished to refuse but the starets ordered him to accept the appointment.
- He did so, and took leave of the starets and moved to the other monastery.
- Hence I have modified the reference to 'Starets' to take this into account.
- This huge two storey eight pillared building was designed by a local starets.
- In choosing a starets you renounce your own will and surrender it to him in perfect submission, absolute self-abnegation. '
- Dostoevsky insists that the institution of the starets in imperial Russia came from the East, 'the practice of a thousand years.'
- This was the result of his consciousness of humility, and the certainty that whatever he had to do, being fixed by the starets, was right.
- This Superior had been a disciple of the starets Ambrose, who was a disciple of Makarius, who was a disciple of the starets Leonid, who was a disciple of Paussy Velichkovsky.
- Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov is writing about that familiar figure of the old Russia, the starets, or holy man: 'A starets takes your soul, your will, into his soul and will.
- Sergius obeyed the starets, showed his letter to the Abbot, and having obtained his permission, gave up his cell, handed all his possessions over to the monastery, and set out for the Tambov hermitage.
- The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey.