'' Imitation of Christ as a Christian Lifestyle-Disembodied Fiction or ...

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De Foucauld's life demonstrates that the imitatio Christi can be
an incarnated reality rather than a disembodied fiction if it has certain
important elements. . '('
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It is to be understood as a process of total development in which
different elements of the personality are unified and together brought
to maturity through love-orientated perception and love-orientated
identification with Christ, defined and maintained by meditation and
communion with him, and characterised by a continual openness to
his will.
For, as De Foucauld himself knew well, whether one seems to be
~t the beginning, middle, or near the end of the journey, there is
ultimately only but always one word. It is the word of invitation
which purifies and directs, calls and enables. It is the word which
can be grasped by the beginner, but cannot be exhausted by the
maturest saint: "Comer and see 0 0 0 Come o. o follow me."
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