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\u201cDon\u2019t worry about being effective.<\/strong>
Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you.<\/strong>
You will know. You will know when it\u2019s right.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTradition! We scarcely know the word any more. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them.\u201d <\/strong>.. \u201cTradition\u201d says GK Chesterton \u201cis democracy extended through time. Tradition means giving the vote to that most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy Day . Servant of God<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t worry about being effective.Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.\u201d \u201cYou will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you.You will know. You will know when it\u2019s right.\u201d \u201cTradition! We scarcely know the word any more. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them.\u201d .. \u201cTradition\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-practices","category-spiritual-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-2tt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/new-book-on-spiritual-direction\/","url_meta":{"origin":9515,"position":0},"title":"New Book on Spiritual Direction","author":"fatherboniface@gmail.com","date":"October 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201dThe lost (or forgotten) art of spiritual direction goes back to the first centuries of Christianity, to the Fathers of the Desert. 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