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Practice of the presence of God

Brother Lawrence’s way of living in continual conversation with God in ordinary tasks.

Christian mysticism

Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth-century Carmelite lay brother who worked in the monastery kitchen, taught that one can be as close to God among the pots and pans as at the altar, by turning to God continually in simple acts of love. His letters and conversations were published after his death.