Apostolic is a practice
of love and zeal
regardless of fatigue
and inconvenience.
Spirit is a doer
of good and kindness
with detachment, openness
and purity of intention.
“Love your enemies,
and do good to them,
without expecting a return,
for you are children of God… [1]
What foils it?
Anxiousness distracts the mind.
Worldliness withers the heart.
Selfishness enslaves the soul.
“A fiery furnace is the world
twice blessed are those souls
that are plunged into it
and take on its burning.” [2]
Apostolic spirit dwells with Charity,
attending to neighbor’s needs,
nurturing the spiritually abandoned,
cultivating the socially marginalized.
[1] Luke 6: 35
[2] Father Judge Meditations p158
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