Soul of the Apostolate—Ep. 3—Without Interior Life, Active Life Full of Danger

By James T. Majewski ( bio - articles - email ) | Aug 29, 2025 | In Catholic Culture Audiobooks (Podcast)

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“These falls can be MOST CERTAINLY avoided when one knows how to use the precious balancing pole of the interior life. It is only the abandonment of this INFALLIBLE instrument that brings dizziness and the fatal false step into space.”

Part Three of this classic work by the French Trappist monk, Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard (1858-1935), warns of the spiritual perils of an active life divorced from a deep interior life, while offering the assurance of grace and progress in virtue for those who root their work in prayer and union with God.

Episode 3: Part Three

00:00—Intro

00:52—1. Active Works, a Means of Sanctification for Interior Souls, Become, for Others, a Menace to their Salvation

14:07—2. The Active Worker Who Has No Interior Life

43:45—3. The Interior Life: Basis of the Holiness of the Apostolic Worker

This work will be released in its entirety in episodic format.

Links

The Soul of the Apostolate full text: https://www.cmri.org/0-olmc-mission/catholic-books/soul_of_the_apostolate.pdf

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