Fr. Andrew Apostoli CFR - The Advocate: The Spirit of Truth
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THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
IN THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIAN
ANDREW APOSTOLI, C.F.R.
FOREWORD BY
ALAN NAPLETON
TAN Books
Charlotte, North Carolina
Permission for the release of these three titles under the auspices of TAN Books has been granted by the Society of St. Paul, Inc., ST PAULS / Alba House, 2187 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY., USA.
In composing this work, Father Apostoli relied principally on his vast store of knowledge for biblical quotations and, as such, many passages may be paraphrased or seem to derive from a number of different authorized Catholic versions of the Bible.
Cover and interior design by Caroline Kiser
Images by Nancy Bauer and Sopelkin / Shutterstock
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1045-6
Published in the United States by
TAN Books
PO Box 410487
Charlotte, North Carolina 28241
www.TANBooks.com
Printed and bound in the United States of America
With filial love and devotion,
the original version of this book
was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who,
as the chosen Daughter of the Eternal Father,
conceived in her womb Jesus Christ,
the Way, the Truth and the Life
through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit
that He might be proclaimed to the whole world,
and
to Pope St. John Paul II,
whose wholehearted fidelity to Jesus Christ
made him a courageous prophet of the Most High
and a faithful evangelist of the splendor of truth!
This present revised edition of the book is also dedicated
to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI,
who constantly warned us of the tyranny of relativism
and to Pope Francis,
who has called us to be missionaries of the truth.
T HIS BOOK IS TRULY the fruit of dedication on the part of certain individuals. Without their help, it would never have been completed. I first wish to thank Mary Majkowski, who so kindly and patiently typed and retyped the original contents through many revisions. Without her tremendous contribution of time, effort, and materials, as well as her encouragement, I do not believe this book would have ever come to press. I also want to thank her husband Edward and her family with whom I shared many meals as Mary and I worked on the book. I also wish to thank Renee Bumb Smith for her help in organizing and then editing the text. I am grateful to her husband Kevin for his support as well.
I wish also to acknowledge the many people who have supported the writing of this book with their prayers and encouragement over the period of its preparation. If it pleases God, may the many prayers offered for its completion obtain special graces for those who read it!
The author also wishes to thank Alba House for graciously agreeing to publish the first edition of this book and TAN Books for publishing this second edition.
For this second edition, the author wishes to thank Pam Presbitero for her help with researching the various quotes and prayers that have been added to this work, as well as editing and proofing the manuscript. The author also wishes to thank Alan Napleton from the Catholic Marketing Network and Conor Gallagher of TAN Books for agreeing to reprint this updated version.
No acknowledgment would be complete without thanking Almighty God for the grace to complete this work. It was written in honor of the Blessed Trinity, to give praise and glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Who live and reign, the same yesterday, today, and forever!
The author would like to thank in a very special way Our Blessed Mother, whose constant intercession was sought throughout the writing of this book. Finally, I wish to thank one of the newest Doctors of the Church, St. Thrse of Lisieux, for her spiritual encouragement in the writing of this book.
GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION
S OONER OR LATER, I think we all come to realize that we are on a journey, a realization that often comes with age as we are faced with the certainty of our own death and begin to contemplate whats next. Certainly, the individual life journeys of each of us are different, faced as we are with an endless option of paths and choices. But even with all the variety of options and challenges that we encounter, our journeys are still somehow similar in that we were created to end up in the same placein the arms of a loving God. Whether we believe it or not, that is our true destiny.
Like each of you, my journey has been unique. Ive experienced more than my fair share of joy, and I am no stranger to the pain and suffering that we all inevitably confront along the way. Now that Im in my late 60s, I look back and realize that the decisive moment in my journey took place nearly thirty years ago, when I made the decision to leave the corporate world and offer to God whatever modest talents I possessed for the work of His Church.
Not surprisingly, this course of action does not usually reward one with earthly treasure. However, it often provides one with riches of a more enduring kind, and sometimes allows you the company of some of the most exceptional people on the face of the earth. People who have made the conscious decision to serve their Creator completely, giving Him their all, and leaving nothing for themselves. People who radiate love so clearly, yet powerfully, that they truly reflect Christs love for us and, like Christ, inexplicably draw us to them and him. Father Andrew Apostoli, CFR is one such soul. I have come to know him as a wise and holy man of God who has fully dedicated his life to his vocation as a Franciscan friar for over fifty years. I feel very privileged and blessed that he has played such an important role in my journey!
I have known Father Andrew for nearly thirty years, and his friendship and spiritual guidance has meant more to me than I think he will ever know. When we first met, I had just experienced a reawakening to my Catholic faith and found myself coordinating a conference at a place that we have both come to love, a shrine in the heart of Mexico City that marks the spot where the Queen of Heaven appeared to a humble indigenous man nearly 500 years agothe Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Here, the Mother of God spoke of her love and help that was available to each of us. In this Shrine, she left an image of herself on St. Juan Diegos tilma, which has been miraculously preserved for nearly five centuries.
Father Andrew spoke at that conference, and that very same day we became fast and dear friends. We decided then and there to make an annual pilgrimage to Our Ladys Shrine and did so for over a decade, bringing along hundreds of other individuals and families from all over the country. Father Andrews love for our heavenly Mother was apparent even then, and it was truly a beautiful thing to behold. His deep devotion to Our Lady, which was so apparent as I watched him speak about her on those trips, shines through in his many conferences, TV and radio appearances, and writings.
I have also spent a lot of time with Father Andrew in Yonkers, at his New York Friary in the heart of the Bronx. While there I have observed the way in which the younger men and women in this growing religious order look up to him as a spiritual father. With great admiration and respect, they lovingly seek his guidance, deriving benefit from, as have so many others, his deep store of spiritual and practical wisdom. Father has also taken me to some of the mission outlets run by the CFRs, places where I think he feels most at home. There, alongside the men and women of his community, he joyfully tends to the needs of Gods poor and neglected; such missions are oases in the middle of the concrete jungle, places where people are reminded that they, too, are children of God.
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