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(1) He was drawn to the monastic life.

(2) He leads a monastic life with very little contact with other people.

(3) It's an almost monastic existence.

(4) Monastic worship shaped the religious feeling of early medieval society more than did any other single factor.

(5) He says he's done well to survive the monastic life for so long!

(6) Monastic abbots, by comparison, found spiritual leadership easy, because the monks were sheltered from contact with the world.

(7) The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements, where the Cistercian Order was most active.

(8) Number 7 was originally the monastic granary, now sporting a new frontage, put up around 1890.

(9) Earl Robert kept the two monastic dignitaries one on either side of him, with Hugh at Herluin's other side.

(10) The majority of new churches and cathedrals were monastic settlements.

(11) Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.

(12) The church militant, and indeed all ecclesiastical and monastic institutions, possessed libraries and were repositories of learning.

(13) The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.

(14) Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.

(15) For many, partnership remains cloaked in a monastic exclusivity, as accessible as the holy orders. Sentencedict.com

(16) Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.

(17) Oddly enough, it was an area about which he felt quite as strongly as the members of the monastic community.

(18) In addition to the papal disregard of Canterbury's primatial claim over York, the monastic community suffered another grievous blow.

(19) He recognized that, although she had worn the veil for several years, she had never made her monastic profession.

(20) Ste Barbe's episcopal acta confirm his sympathy for the ethos of the Yorkshire monastic reform movement.

(21) Knowledge of architectural features of style was dispersed partly by the monastic orders and partly by the great pilgrimages.

(22) In many cases, the physical lay-out and arrangement of the monastic community were identical.

(23) John's more practical eye had noted the men lounging at the doors of what had been monastic cells.

(24) Nevertheless, in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly, the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one.

(25) For Anselm, the voice of a local church, especially of a local monastic community, sufficed in most matters.

(26) He and his twin brother, Michael, had previously founded a monastic order in Stroud.

(27) A further indication of the hierarchical structure of the monastic order of monks and nuns is the growth of rules.

(28) The centre of his world, conceptually as well as in his personal life, was the monastic life.

(29) The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.

(30) Bishop's change in theological position and his abandonment of monastic life both caused sorrow to his community.