Now at last, after eighteen centuries of degradation, in which the church came to be the apocalyptic Babylon and ripened for judgment, the time has come when the suspended apostolate has been restored to prepare the way for the last things.
St. Matthias was elected to the Apostolate by lots (Acts, i.
If that first apostolate was able to remove mountains by faith, such an apostolate as Christ could now summon might change the face of the earth.
The inhabitants of towns without number, where thou hast exercised thy apostolate of charity, will associate themselves with this work of affection and remembrance.
That was the apostolatealike of Joshua and of Mahomet.
Kabalistic Gnosticism: in the chiefs of the Templars was vested the Apostolate of, 817-m.
Thus the Order of Knights of the Temple was at its very origin devoted to the cause of opposition to the tiara of Rome and the crowns of Kings, and the Apostolate of Kabalistic Gnosticism was vested in its chiefs.
The wide unfulfilled provinces of his apostolate ever called him on.
He set his mind to reflect upon this, so as to comprehend how it came about and what it involved; and the theology of the first part of his apostolate was nothing but the result of these broodings under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
But here we touch the completeness of the success which followed the trust placed in their apostolate by the seven immediate successors of St. Leo.
Her ultimate destiny involved a species of apostolate among the savages of Canada, and for this, the novitiate awaiting her in the world would prove a more effectual preparation, than would the novitiate of the cloister.
Though she did not live to witness the full realization of that promise, she was permitted to foresee its accomplishment in a celestial vision granted her much about the period of the opening of her apostolate at Dezenzano.
Its objects are the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the triumph of the Church, the deliverance of the suffering souls in purgatory, and the extension of the work of St. Angela by word and example, or the apostolate of woman.
The Circulation of Catholic Papers and their remailing to those who live far from large centres and are out of touch with the Church are other forms of the Apostolate of the Catholic Truth Society.
But there is no field with greater possibilities for this apostolate of the "printed word" than our Western Provinces.
Little by little the Society's influence has spread everywhere and proved beyond doubt to be a great factor of Catholic apostolate in our time.
This political side of his apostolate needs to be clearly apprehended if we would understand its amazing success and the wholly unique character of the Franciscan movement in its beginning.
Not once do we see him resorting to miracle to prove hisapostolate or to bolster up his ideas.
There is not a single passage in the Franciscan biographers which gives a more living idea of the apostolate of the Poverello.
To this he conformed his own conduct as a Jew, so far as his Gentile apostolate was not involved (1 Cor.
Father Hecker cherished him as a friend, and he was his zealous and efficient agent in his entire Apostolate of the Press.
He felt that the Apostolate of the Press might well absorb the external vocation of the most active friends of religion.
But to a religious mind it was an invitation to the Apostolate of the Press.
It was a missionary work in the broadest sense seeking to enlist not only the clergy but especially the laity in an organized Apostolate of the Press, to enlighten the faith of Catholics and to spread it among their Protestant fellow-citizens.
To him the Apostolate of the Press meant the largest amount of truth to the greatest number of people.
He conducted it so as to occupy much of the field open to the Apostolate of the Press, giving solid doctrine in form of controversy, and discussing such religious truths as were of current interest.
And in America the pioneer work of the apostolate must be to remove prejudice.
What follows, taken from a letter of Father Hecker's while sick in Europe in 1874, shows one of his aims in the Apostolate of the Press.
Father Hecker was penetrated with the belief that the intelligence and liberty, whose well-ordered enjoyment he had witnessed in America, and which he loved so deeply himself, were divine invitations to the apostolate of the Holy Spirit.
Throughout life he was ever asking himself and others how the Press could be cleansed, and how its Apostolate could be inaugurated.
This expression again repeated was instinct with so much contempt that Pierre realised all the wretchedness that would fall upon the poor pages of his apostolate on meeting the eyes of this prince who had become a saintly man.
His thoughts reverted to his apostolate amidst the misery of Paris, and his heart was touched with compassion at being confronted by the story of such fearful sufferings on the very day of his arrival in Rome.
Moreover, his passion for his apostolate had at once returned to him.
However, his apostolate was influenced even more decisively by meeting Viscount Philibert de la Choue at the gatherings of certain workingmen's Catholic associations.
Its noblest period is included in the century preceding the Apostolate of Mohammed, and the oldest of that epoch is the prince of Arab songsters, Imr al-Kays, "The Wandering King.
In exchange for these hard hearts, Jesus had promised him the apostolate of distant nations, and an auditory more docile to his voice.
Columcille's apostolate was to be among both these peoples.
Not less remarkable was the skill with which he handled men and used pagan institutions for the purposes of Christianity; and equally so was the success with which his bloodless apostolate was crowned.
Bartholomew de las Casas, His Life, His Apostolate and His Writings.
MacNutt's Bartholomew de las Casas, His Life, His Apostolate and His Writings, Chaps.
He was being educated for the Apostolate, and the Apostolate could not be carried on without the sinews of war.
Mr. Owen," Meenie answered solemnly, "the seal of the Apostolate lies far deeper than that.
Paul Owen's apostolate had surely borne its first fruit.
The rules he laid down for his apostolate were meant to bar out selfish acquisition: “Freely ye received, freely give.
Jesus invites him to a more heroic type of excellence, cutting loose from his wealth and devoting himself to the apostolate of the Kingdom of God.
There can be no doubt that the claims of Paul to the Apostolate were, during his life, constantly denied, and his authority rejected.
If the Gospel, instead of being a power of God to salvation to every man who believed, was for the Jew first, the Apostolate of the Gentiles was a mere delusion and a snare.
It must, we think, be evident to any one who attentively considers the passage we are examining, that there is no question whatever in it of a recognition of the Apostolate of Paul.
No one, too, was better qualified to guide the steps of Patrick up the steep ascent of virtue, and prepare him for his future apostolate than the aged soldier Saint.
Of course, too, the history of the Irish Church is entirely inconsistent with so early a date for the apostolate of this Irish saint.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostolate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
