“Prayer is the basic prerequisite to service of the Church and the world. Every believer should always think of prayer as an essential and indispensable component of one’s vocation.” -Pope John Paul II
For Reflection:
To what extent do I consider prayer to be “an essential and indispensable component” of my vocation? To what extent do I live it?
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Introduction, Page x ...as we live out our days in an authentic Christian way: We become aware that "though our outer man is wasting away, our inner man is being renewed every day" (2 Corinthians 4:16). But this is precisely a secret, the one that Padre Pio called "the secret of the great King" (seeTobit 12:7). For a Christian--and not just a Franciscan--the secret coincides exactly with a Person:Jesus.