He was somewhat ascetical in temperament, but he differed from all that class of thinkers by the clearness of his appreciation of the wants of his time and his unwearied efforts to meet them successfully.
When Professor Anton visited the Jesuit Library at Madrid, in 1687, he inquired for the best ascetical writer.
He was a voluminous writer on church law and also in the departments of moral and ascetical theology.
The withdrawal of particular ascetics from asceticalmotives into the wilderness, which was a favourite craze for a while, may have been suggested by Old and New Testament examples, e.
We also have from him some ascetical tracts, several sermons and 26 Epistles.
De Pietate cum Scientia conjungenda,” and year after year gave lectures on ascetical theology, out of which grew his treatise published in A.
In carrying out these schemes the Jesuits abandoned the ascetical principles of their founder and their vow of poverty, amassing enormous wealth by securing in many parts a practical monopoly of trade.
Partly from this cause, and partly under the stress of other circumstances, he had become a Puritan of the Puritans, an ascetical hermit.
An unusually severe ascetical penitential time, and then the rarest watchfulness and continuous self-renouncement, take thus, for a considerable period, the place of the sacramental forms of Penance.
In ascetical theology, St. Ignatius is a leader in modern times; and his "Spiritual Exercises" form a complete system of asceticism.
He published a work entitled /Guida Spirituale/ in 1675, the ascetical principles of which attracted so much attention that translations of the book appeared almost immediately in nearly every country of Europe.
Yet we should realize the deep truth which underlies the very exaggerations of this one-sidedly Analytic and Ascetical view.
I do not here forget all you have done to provide ascetical and devotional books for the use of the Church of England, both by your own writings, and, may I not say it, from your neighbor's vineyard?
Origen was just twenty-six years of age: though so young, he was already famous as a teacher and a holy liver in the most learned of cities, and one of the most ascetical of churches.
Yet our own English Catholic annals can, in a manner, furnish parallel cases in more than one solid book of controversy and deep ascetical tract, thought out and composed when the pursuivants were almost at the doors.
The answer is that the devotional and ascetical type on which they are formed is one calculated to repress individual activity, a quality essential to political success in our day.
Almost every day we find ascetical works published which contain many inaccuracies of the kind described.
From these various opinions it is easy to see how false are certain maxims met with in some ascetical works: for example, that it is of small consequence if one should shorten his life by ten or fifteen years in order to save his soul.
Each worked for his personal advance in virtue; each strove to do his utmost in all kinds of ascetical exercises and austerities--in prolonging his fasts, his prayers, his silence.
Among theascetical writers are: St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor (d.
The confessor should give much attention to the study of moral and ascetical works, so as to be able to suggest suitable means to his penitents for overcoming their spiritual infirmities and avoiding future relapses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascetical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
