close relationship with our Lord, which is the most important thing in our life. Following this teaching of our Lord, the ordinary Christian should strive to attain an integrated life—an intense life of piety and external activity, orientated towards God, practised out of love for him and with an upright intention, which expresses itself in apostolate, in everyday work, in doing the duties of one’s state in life. “You must understand now more clearly that God is calling you to serve him in and from
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