Question

1.How much influence do you think pastors had on society during the Middle Ages in Europe? Explain.

2.What is the mixed life?

3.To lead the mixed life, do you think a prelate or pastor would spend time in a monastery? Explain.

Answer 1

Priests had a lot of power because most bibles were in latin or greek and they were the only ones who could read it. This let them say anything they wanted was in the bible and no one could dispute them.

Answer 2

okay, I already got that..... I just don't know what they mean when it comes to mixed life. @B1G0L3

Answer 3

I have never heard of the mixed life, but this is what google says "the length of time during which two or more components will not react unfavorably after intermixing"

Answer 4

will this help you?

THE third kind of life that is called the mixed life belongeth to Prelates [high-ranking clergy] of holy Church and to pastors and curates [priest assistants] who have charge and superiority over other men or women, for to teach and govern them, both as to their bodies and as to their souls, and principally to animate and guide them in the performance of the deeds of mercy both corporal and spiritual towards their Christian brethren. Unto these men of the mixed life it appertaineth sometimes to use the works of mercy in active life, in help and sustenance of themselves and of their subjects and of others also, and sometimes for to leave all manner of external businesses and to give themselves to contemplative exercises, as to prayer and meditations, reading of holy Scriptures or other good books or to some other spiritual exercises, according to what they shall feel themselves disposed. — Walter Hilton, Treatise Written to a Devout Man,
Chapter IV

Answer 5

i believe the mixed life is the union of contemplation with the work of the sacred ministry.

Answer 6

Thank you soooo much ♥