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The Followers Of Foucauld

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

L. C. Sheppard
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It seems to be the lot of some of the servants of God that they begin to exert a powerful influence only after their death. One such case, of course, was Soeur Thérèse of Lisieux, unknown at death, of world-wide renown within twenty years afterwards (before her beatification). Such too seems to be the case with Fr Charles of Jesus-Charles de Foucauld, the missionary monk and hermit of the Sahara.

His way of life can have but a limited attraction though his teaching and methods have anything but a restricted application. It is perhaps the very relevance of his method of apostolate that is drawing men to study what he did, and in some cases to imitate him, with the necessary adaptations of course, in the task of proclaiming the Gospel by their life. Crier l'Evangile par toute ma vie was his watchword; if it were indeed done by all Christians how quickly would the world be conquered for Christ.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 2 , Issue 14 , August 1947 , pp. 69 - 72
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Copyright © 1947 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Fr Rene Voillaume: Les FraterniUs du Pire Foucauld: Mission et Esprit. (Paris, wions du Cerf; Oxford, Blackfriars Publications; 8s.)

2 ‘C'est vers un realisation progressive en ce sens, et dans la mesure ou le premettent les regies liturgiques actuelles, que s'orientent, des maintenant, les efforts the ratertlites.’ One would have liked to have been told more about this. All the community presumably takes part in the recitation. Are the priests obliged to any other Office as well? If they are not it is a departure of great moment.