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this work during the return flight to Rome at the end of his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very simple book, by someone who doesn\u2019t even give his last name \u2014 Brother Lawrence \u2014 written many years ago,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it describes, if you will, a type of prayer and spirituality where one simply gives his life to the Lord and allows the Lord to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a preface to \u201cThe Practice of the Presence of God,\u201d published by the Vatican Publishing House (LEV) in Italian, the pope goes deeper into this personal experience and places the work within his own journey of faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have had occasion to say, together with the writings of St. Augustine and other books, this is one of the texts that has most shaped my spiritual life and has formed me in what the path for knowing and loving the Lord can be,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>Leo emphasizes that the small book by Brother Lawrence places at the center not merely the experience but a true \u201cpractice\u201d of the presence of God, lived in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>It is, he explains, a path that is \u201csimple and arduous at the same time. Simple, because it requires nothing other than \u201cconstantly calling God to mind, with small, continual acts of praise, prayer, supplication, adoration, in every action and in every thought, with him alone as our horizon, source, and end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is demanding because it requires \u201ca journey of purification, of ascetic discipline, of renunciation and conversion of the most intimate part of ourselves \u2014 of our mind and our thoughts, even more than of our actions,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the pontiff cites St. Paul\u2019s exhortation to the Philippians: \u201cHave in you the same sentiments as Christ Jesus\u201d \u2014 to underscore that \u201cit is not only our attitudes and behaviors that must be conformed to God, but our very sentiments, our very way of feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the preface, Leo underscores that this spiritual path, in which the presence of God becomes \u201cfamiliar and occupies our inner space,\u201d is where \u201cgraces and spiritual riches blossom, and even daily tasks become easy and light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope situates Brother Lawrence\u2019s message in the context of today\u2019s world. The writings of this Carmelite, who lived with luminous faith through a century marked by conflicts and violence \u2014 \u201ccertainly no less violent than our own\u201d \u2014 can, he affirms, \u201calso be an inspiration and a help for the lives of us men and women of the third millennium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The writing of Brother Lawrence shows us \u201cthat there is no circumstance that can separate us from God, that each of our actions, each of our occupations, and even each of our mistakes acquires infinite value if lived in the presence of God, continually offered to him,\u201d the Holy Father says.<\/p>\n<p>The pope adds that the whole of Christian ethics \u201ccan truly be summed up in this continual calling to mind of the fact that God is present: He is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remembrance, which is more than a simple memory because it involves our feelings and affections, overcomes all moralism and every reduction of the Gospel to a mere set of rules, and shows us that truly, as Jesus promised us, the experience of entrusting ourselves to God the Father already gives us a hundredfold here on earth,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntrusting ourselves to the presence of God means tasting a foretaste of paradise,\u201d Leo writes.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA&#8217;s Spanish-language partner agency. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.<\/p>\n<p>Receive the most important news from EWTN Vatican via WhatsApp. It has become increasingly difficult to see Catholic news on social media. Subscribe to our free channel today<\/p>\n<p>EWTN Vatican on WhatsApp <\/p>\n<p>Victoria Cardiel<br \/>\nAs a journalist, Victoria Cardiel has specialized in social and religious news. 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