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 1 1,4|          of these was the rise of monasticism. It began as a definite
 2 1,7|    considered to be the Father of monasticism, and The Life of St. Anthony,
 3 1,9|          brothers Constantine (in monasticism Cyril — 1869) and Methodius (
 4 1,0|       Sovereign. At the same time monasticism was severely restricted
 5 1,1|           example, in Russia, but monasticism is in decline and there
 6 4,0|      Anthony the Great, Father of Monasticism (Jan. 17)~The Three Holy
 7 5  |                       5. Orthodox Monasticism.~It is generally accepted
 8 5  |           generally accepted that monasticism began in Egypt towards the
 9 5  |       older. Indeed, some form of monasticism may have existed almost
10 5  |        often called the Father of Monasticism, was St. Anthony the Great (†
11 5  |        the life of this father of monasticism, the desert solitude was
12 5  |      community became the norm of monasticism and the solitary life the
13 5  |        preferred form of Orthodox monasticism and thus, the overwhelming
14 5  |           community. This form of monasticism, for a time, held sway on
15 5  |           royal or middle path of monasticism, midway between the extreme
16 5  |        predominance of coenobitic monasticism, if the origin of monasticism
17 5  |     monasticism, if the origin of monasticism was the solitary life and
18 5  | definition, alone, why, then, did monasticism become essentially communal?
19 5  |     departure from the essence of monasticism?~The answer lies in that
20 5  |    solitude is not the essence of monasticism, for this essence is, in
21 5  |        lives.~And so, the goal of monasticism was not one of ego and self,
22 5,1|     attaining to the next step in monasticism, which is that of the Lesser
23 5,1|      Lesser Schema.~Originally in monasticism there were only two grades:
24 5,2|    ascetics of the Church divided monasticism into Greater and Lesser
25 5,2|        should be only one form of monasticism. The practice, however,
26 5,2|       make note that in Orthodoxy monasticism embraces both men and women.
27 8,7|    certain special cases (such as monasticism, for example), he is not
28 8,7|       than the special calling of monasticism), requiring a gift or charism