Wisdom from Madeleine Delbrêl

 
 
 

From the moment we wake up, situations that call for our obedience seize us. They are the ringing of the telephone, the key that does not work, and the bus that does not come, that is full, or that does not wait for us. They are our neighbor on the bench who takes up all the room or the window that vibrates enough to split your head.

—Madeleine Delbrêl

from her book, The Holiness of Ordinary People

 

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EVERYDAY HOLY

French poet, social worker, and lay missionary Madeleine Delbrêl knew that Christ’s unspeakable goodness touches the smallest, most forgotten corners of our everyday world—the laundry, the checkout counter, the commute. This book gathers together essays and notes written by Delbrêl during her most active years, giving peerless insights into the distinctive lay vocation in the Church.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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