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A full practice of the third Evangelical counsel of obedience could only be realized after the monastic ideal had taken root and passed beyond the purely eremitical stage.

Judaism does not encourage the monastic ideal of celibacy and poverty.

But either way, the monastic ideal was regarded as the utmost expression of the Christian life.

Our point is that not all liturgical development in this period was strictly monastic, yet monastic ideals strongly influenced cathedral life.

He later wrote a small Rule to guide a community of women who wanted to live the monastic ideal.

During his youth he was attracted by ascetic and monastic ideals and joined the monastic community of Mount Athos.

There Abraham devoted himself to trying to achieve the monastic ideals.

He was ordained in the Church and, in his works, favours the monastic ideal.

Edgar had made extensive grants of land to monasteries which pursued the new monastic ideals of ecclesiastical reform, but these disrupted aristocratic families' traditional patronage.

These monks were anchorites, following the monastic ideal of St. Anthony.