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Contemplative Order[: ] A religious community which engages exclusively, or almost exclusively, in activities directly ordered to contemplation.
The rich variety of religious orders existing in Western Christendom finds no parallel in the Orthodox Church, where there is but one, the contemplative order of S. Basil.
[...] a trust for a contemplative order of Buddhist nuns was upheld.
The great function assumed by contemplatives [...] is the worship of God.