Evangelical Love: Retreat Meditations

These are meditations given for a retreat for the renewal of vows of the consecrated lay women of the Apostles of the Interior Life, from May 28 to June 1, 2018. The theme was "the mystery of evangelical love" or the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. In these reflections, I tried to gaze upon the foundational realities of our existence–especially the truth of our belovedness in the arms of our heavenly Father–within which alone all the other elements of our l