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Meaning of "ascetical"

Ascetical pertains to practices or principles of self-discipline and abstention, often for religious or spiritual purposes
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It is a form of ascetical prayer that is extremely simplified.
And their pastoral and ascetical value.
He advocated an ascetical attitude in prayer to maintain purity of heart.
He was a missionary and ascetical writer.
The ascetical preparation was severe.
He also wrote many minor ascetical and devotional treatises.
Ascetical practices of other religions.
He then lived a strict ascetical life and reposed in peace.
His ascetical works reveal his deep and sincere piety.
Dangers of the ascetical life.
Of ascetical prayer associated with the extraordinary church father origin.
Marriage is also an ascetical struggle.
The annexe leant to a high railway embankment, it looks extremely ascetical.
He is also the author of two ascetical works adapted for laymen.
People forget that the path of Christianity is indeed an ascetical labour.

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He had a deep knowledge of the ascetical and mystical tradition of Orthodoxy.
People forget that the path of Christianity is indeed an ascetical labor.
Diligence in penitential and ascetical practices and spiritual accompaniment ;.
In addition to the works already mentioned Montoya wrote a number of ascetical treatises.
Therefore, she increased her ascetical efforts until her health suffered.
Anselm was well versed in the Scriptures and wrote some exegetical and ascetical works.
Of course, exterior silence is an ascetical exercise of self-mastery in the use of speech.
He wrote numerous theological, philosophical and ascetical works.
Perhaps the most important ascetical practice for us today would be the practice of Cyber-Sabbaths.
Spiritual life is usually a synthesis of the ascetical and mystical.
The ascetical life should be our repentant response to God 's love.
He was a prolific ascetical writer.
The eastern ascetical tradition however distinguishes between them . ”.
The first kind of recollection belongs to ascetical devotion and practice.
He led a very ascetical life, dedicated to penance, prayer and study.
Fr Seraphim spent his time in ascetical struggles.
A great number of ascetical writers sprang up during the 17th century.
Father Seraphim spent his time in ascetical struggles.
Ascetical struggle and a purification from one 's own sins and errors, since.
Silence as a Christian ascetical value.
Besides ascetical theology, his published works treat of Scripture, dogma, ethics, biography and Church history.
The brethren of the monastery were astonished at the saint 's ascetical efforts.
Clemens August is the author of a few ascetical and ecclesiastico-political works.
For example, it seems helpful to distinguish between spirituality and ascetical practices.
Following his Baptism, Astion started an ascetical life similar to one of a monk.
As a monk, he quickly became renown because of his genuine and rare ascetical life.
With virginity, marriage is thus also understood as an ascetical working out of salvation.
This book is sometimes referred to as the apex of Teresa 's ascetical doctrine.
It is a constant… It is an ascetical struggle, too.
People have forgotten, though, that the path of Christian life has an ascetical character.
Poets and hagiographers, chroniclers, canonists, and ascetical writers succeed each other.
The first week of Great Lent has ended - a week of intensified prayer and ascetical repentance.
You see, Christianity is an ascetical Faith / Religion.
His writings consist chiefly of moral, liturgical, and ascetical treatises.
Why should we avoid all public display of our fasting, ascetical practices, and private prayer?

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