apostolate
apostolate
Definition
apos·to·late (ə päs′tə lit, -lāt′)
noun
the office, duties, or period of activity of an apostle
Etymology: ME apostolat < LL(Ec) apostolatus < apostolus: see apostle
apostolate
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- laity: Properly understood and lived, the diaconate should surely therefore be a leaven for the apostolate of the laity.
- prayer: The sea-girt island was his enclosure, the broad woods his cloister, the wide world the object of his apostolate of prayer.
Converse of object
- have: For this reason, each one will have an apostolate either collaborating with others in the community or individually.
- lie: They showed remarkable dedication to the lay apostolate in the Church and foreshadowed the collaborative ministry that is much spoken of nowadays.
Adjective modifier
- personal: Personal apostolate Personal testimony is always the most important apostolate in Opus Dei.
- social: My work in the social apostolate is mainly concerned with academic reflection.
- intellectual: The most effective response is to tackle the problem at its root, which implies an intellectual apostolate.
- important: Continue, dear Jesuits, this important apostolate, keeping the spirit of your Founder unchanged.
- fruitful: Faith has always found a particularly fruitful apostolate among the young.
- active: Today as sisters with an active apostolate, we perpetuate this tradition by maintaining a fervent life in common.
Preposition: in
- world: A vocation to Opus Dei is a specific vocation within this call to holiness and apostolate in the world.
Browse dictionary entries near apostolate
- Apostles' Creed
- apostle
- apostil
- apostatize
- apostate
- apostasy
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- aposiopesis
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