Generally, the following practices formed the core of a healthy Christian spirituality: Regular prayer (both private and communal), the practice of charity and self-sacrifice (both at home and in the wider world), some concrete involvement with the poor, involvement within some church community, and a willingness to be vulnerable for love (as Christ was vulnerable). From the Bible, through the early church fathers, through the medieval theologians, through the great reformers, through the great mystics, through the founders of the various religious orders, down to Henri Nouwen, these are the
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