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The aim of the article is to discuss the changing place of ascetic practices in Catholic consecrated life today. In our investigation of the proposed problem, we focus on official Church documents, sociological studies of the phenomenon and interviews with nuns which we conducted in Poland in 2018. The three sources not only allow for defining the very phenomenon but also unveil the changing place...