One of my favorite books for Lectio-Divina (see Week One of the Advent Study) is
Divine Intimacy, by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene.
This book provides meditations on the interior life for every day of the liturgical year. I have found it to be very efficacious.
One of the meditations offered by Father Gabriel for the fourth week of Advent is entitled, The Call to the Apostolate.
In it, he offers an insightful perspective of the Christian call to evangelization based on the words of St. John the Baptist, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" (Luke 3: 4). In the end, he tells us that "Jesus has need of us." When I read these words, they infused me with zeal.
Because I found this meditation so spiritually benefiicial, today I'd like to share with you what Father Gabriel presents.
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“With his humility went a rare and childlike simplicity
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“We should go to prayer with deep humility and an awareness of our nothingness.
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“…after daring to approach your most loving heart and to plunge my thirst into it,
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With the decades-old fitness era giving way to a new interest in overall health of mind and body, the once " exercise-only" focus of Western yoga is giving way to a deeper interest in the spiritual aspects of the practice.
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Since we first
reported on the dangerous new contraceptive known as Nuva Ring last April, new reports about how the manufacturer and the FDA colluded on hiding evidence of its higher blood clot risk is once again reminding women to be wary of those who claim to care about their "reproductive health".
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During a recent interview with an Italian newspaper, Pope Francis said Christmas is all about hope and tenderness.
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It is now the hour for you to wake from sleep,
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA massive backlash is growing on the Internet and social media against A&E for suspending popular Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson from the hit show because of comments he made about homosexuality.
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The Archdiocese of New York not only won a major victory against Obamacare's contentious birth control mandate this week, but a U.S. District Court Judge awarded them the first permanent injunction against the law which takes effect in just two weeks.
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