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 1  2,20|          life, because the whole ascetic effort is to cure God and
 2  2,24|      their task with fasting and ascetic endeavors. In the final
 3  4,12|      depicted must be unworldly, ascetic, their features refined,
 4  5,4 |         a yearning toward higher ascetic struggles and contemplation,
 5  5,4 |         Egypt, founded the first ascetic communities that continued
 6  5,4 |         Church, for with it, the ascetic way of living disappeared
 7  5,4 |     presenting him as a model of ascetic perfection. As St. Athanasius
 8  5,4 |      from the eyes of men, these ascetic recluses concealed themselves
 9  5,5 |       Mountain, became the major ascetic center of the Byzantine
10  5,5 |      highest ideals of Christian ascetic life as expounded by the
11  5,6 |      blesses those who engage in ascetic labor, saying that those
12  5,7 | anchorite in strict solitude and ascetic endeavors. In time, a group
13  6,15|        contradiction between the ascetic ideal and secular authority
14  7,14|     cleansed themselves by great ascetic deeds and unceasing prayer,
15  9,19|          a Russian bishop and an ascetic of the Orthodox Church,
16  9,26|          as elsewhere, he notes, ascetic recluses patterned their
17  9,29|            Mysteries and all the ascetic tradition of the Church
18  9,42|          to theosis. Whereas the ascetic attains to “the likeness
19  9,42|   Christian Church among various ascetic recluses and desert anchorites
20  9,42| dispassionate through prayer and ascetic struggle, Orthodox saints
21 10,21|           a) the praising of his ascetic struggles, since “neither
22 10,26|   however, the yet more renowned ascetic Catherine of Sienna, affirmed