Translation for 'ascesis' from English to Russian

ascesis

аскетизм {м}религ.

• A special form of ascesis is carried out through art.
• On 1 November 2004 the pope sent a letter to Cardinal Antonelli for the occasion of the centennial of La Pira's birth and recalled La Pira's "great intellectual and moral energy, strengthened and refined by extensive daily study, thought, ascesis and prayer".
• The Oil of Catechumens is intended to help strengthen the person about to be baptized, and prepare them for the struggle ("ascesis") of the Christian life, the way a wrestler in ancient Greece and Rome was anointed before a wrestling match.
• The practice of the Jesus Prayer is integrated into the mental, physical and spiritual ascesis undertaken by the Orthodox monastic in the practice of hesychasm.
• According to Sister Benedicta Ward:It was said that Abba Anoub and his brothers kept a strict ascesis in which they devoted all their time to either prayer or manual labor, leaving only four hours a night to sleep.

• The word "ascetic" is from the Greek word ἄσκησις "askesis", meaning "practice". The English term "ascesis" means "the practice of self-discipline".
• Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes” (n. ...
• Books used by hesychasts include the "Philokalia", a collection of texts on prayer and solitary mental ascesis written from the 4th to the 15th centuries, which exists in a number of independent redactions; the "Ladder of Divine Ascent;" the collected works of St.