Day 4: A Gentle Gaze Toward God

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🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Prayer is less about having extraordinary experiences and more about faithfully turning our hearts toward God throughout the day. Fr. Gregory and Rebecca unpack what they call Brother Lawrence’s “Little Way” — a life of gentle attentiveness to God in every moment. Today, we are reading Part 2: First Letter and Second Letter.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rebecca Docherty. And I'm Father Gregory Pine. And you're listening to The Catholic
0:04.3	Classics podcast, where we seek to grow our interior lives by learning from the church's
0:08.6	greatest saints and teachers. Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual
0:13.4	principles, and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life. The Catholic Classics podcast
0:17.9	is brought to you by Ascension. This season, we are reading Ascension's exclusive translation of practice of the presence
0:24.2	of God by Brother Lawrence.
0:26.2	This is Day 4.
0:27.6	Today we will be reading part two, first letter and second letter.
0:31.5	A few reminders before we get started.
0:34.0	To get your own copy of Ascension's edition of practice of the presence of God, go to
0:38.0	ascensionpress.com slash presence.
0:41.2	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
0:44.6	We'll read the first letter and second letter, the beginning of part two.
0:48.3	We talked today about Brother Lawrence's little way, the simplicity of the Christian life.
0:55.0	Let's get started. Letters written by Brother Lawrence's little way, the simplicity of the Christian life. Let's get started.
1:01.8	Letters written by Brother Lawrence of the resurrection to certain religious and pious persons.
1:08.8	First letter. My Reverend Mother, allow me to make use of this occasion to share with you the sentiments of one of our religious regarding the
1:11.7	admirable effects and continual help that he receives from the presence of God, what he has to say
1:17.8	can be of profit for both of us. You should know that for his time as a religious, over 40 years,
1:24.8	his chief care has been to be always in God's presence, and to neither do, say,
1:30.4	nor think anything that might displease him, with no other aim than to have pure love for him,
1:36.1	indeed because he infinitely deserves far more. He is now so accustomed to being in this divine
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