One of the oldest institutions of the Church is that which grew out of monastic life.
He fell back on the majestic power of prevailing ideas, on the ascetic element of the early Church, on the traditions of monastic life.
He then entered the Church, and was successively ordained deacon and priest, while leading a monastic life.
Monastic life, no less than the schools of Alexandria, was influential in creating a divinity which gave as great authority to dogmas that are the result of intellectual deductions, as those based on direct and original declarations.
How Egbert, a holy man of the English nation, led a monastic life in Ireland.
Monastic life in northern France at this period was also in process of development.
Hild came and settled down to a monastic life with a few companions on the river Wear.
The Frank at first felt little tempted in the direction of monastic life.
The habits of a monastic life, the invention of man, were giving way in every quarter to those of domestic life, appointed by God.
His aged father, who had been so grieved when he embraced a monastic life, was urging him to enter the conjugal state.
Do you desire," said he in his dedication to the old man at Mansfeldt, "do you still desire to rescue me from a monastic life?
His example and instructions have been the most perfect rule for the monastic life to all succeeding ages.
But there were others who, inflamed by heresy, professed a hatred of all that was orthodox and belonged to monastic life.
The robust and energetic youth very soon showed the rarest aptitude for monastic life, not only for cenobitical exercises, but, above all, for the missionary work, which was the principal occupation of monks in that country and period.
The Cloister, we must remember, was the centre of monastic life, giving its very name to the calling of a monk, for here the brethren spent their working hours.
This custom, which sounds to us so unreasonable, tended at least to break the monotony of monastic life.
St. Comgan devoted himself to monastic life, and {3} Kentigerna retired to an island in Loch Lomond to live as an anchoress.
This saint was a native of Ireland, where, after some years of monastic life at Inniscattery in the Shannon, he was consecrated bishop.
He was so fervent a follower of monastic life that, as St. Bernard testifies, he founded no less than a hundred monasteries.
From his early youth he followed a monastic life, and eventually became a disciple of St. Columba.
When he experienced the call to a monastic life, he drew after him brothers, cousins, uncle, and friends.
In the XII century the spread of monastic life took on a phenomenal aspect.
Architecture passed to laic control when the protection of monastic life was no longer needed for artists, and when the science of building required the specialist, the man occupied with it alone.
This sweet victim of ambition was designed by a proud and haughty father for the monastic life, in order to enable him to provide more liberally for the rest of the children.
It certainly did not increase her taste for a monastic life.
The life of this saint was written by his friend and companion in monastic life, Andrew, who was third abbot of the monastery.
Now, when the boy was grown up, guided by an angel, he went to Glendalough, and there he settled, leading a monastic life under S.
After five years spent there in the penitential exercises of a monastic life, he went into Palestine to visit the holy places of Jerusalem.
You teach Vedanta and [thereby] benefit men of monastic life.
The Bhattacharya has really favoured me; he wants to safeguard my monastic life, and has taken pity on me out of tenderness.
Mukunda grieves at the rigours of my monastic life: the three baths daily even in winter, the sleep on the bare ground.
The Augustinian convent, whence he received his support, being gradually denuded of its inmates by their abandonment of monastic life, its revenues accordingly were stopped.
A limit at least must be imposed on monastic life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monastic life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
