Each day after Holy Communion, the Missionaries of Charity of St. Teresa of Calcutta recite the Radiating Christ Prayer written by St. John Henry Newman:
“Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance wherever I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul….”
Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard wrote, “One of the most formidable obstacles to the conversion of a soul is the fact that God is a hidden God: Deus absconditus. But God, in His goodness, reveals Himself, in a certain manner, through His saints, and even through fervent souls. In this way, the supernatural filters through and becomes visible to the faithful, who are thus able to apprehend something of the mystery of God.”
Dom Chautard pointed out that the interior life makes the apostle radiate faith, hope, charity, kindness, humility, firmness, gentleness, and mortification.
Regarding the radiation of faith, Dom Chautard wrote, “Never has there been so much preaching, and arguing, or such a spate of learned works of apologetics as in our day, and yet never, at least as far as the bulk of the faithful is concerned, has the faith been so dead. Those whose job it is to teach too often seem to see nothing in the act of faith but an act of the intellect; but as a matter of fact the will also has a large part in it. They forget that belief is a supernatural gift, and that there is a deep gulf between merely seeing the motives of credibility and making a definite act of faith. This gulf can be bridged by God alone, together with the will of the one who is being instructed: but the divine light reflected by the sanctity of the instructor is of immense assistance in accomplishing this task.”
Dom Chautard pointed out that it is impossible for a man of prayer not to radiate hope. He wrote, “The best way to get men to listen to you is to hold out to them the secret of carrying the Cross, which is the lot of every mortal, with joy. This secret lies in the Eucharist and in the hope of heaven.”
St. Joseph Cafasso was able to talk about heaven with so much conviction that people who feared of death would experience a complete change of heart after speaking with him. They would even exclaim: “I no longer fear death; I even desire that it come soon, provided that I have Don Cafasso somewhere near at that moment.”
The love of Christ is the best means to detach a soul from sin and to lead one to perfection. St. Francis de Sales said, “A zeal that is not charitable comes from a charity that is not genuine.”
A pulpit orator wrote, “God has willed that no good should be done to man except by loving him, and that insensibility should be forever incapable either of giving him light, or inspiring him to virtue.”
Father Frederick W. Faber said, “Kindness is the overflow of self on others. To be kind is to put others in one's place. Kindness has convinced more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning, and these three things have never converted anybody without kindness having something to do with it.”
Dom Chautard pointed out that the apostle without interior life, and, therefore without humility, will be at the mercy of his passions. He wrote, “Humility alone, by keeping him to the path of right judgment and preventing him from acting on impulse, will maintain a more perfect balance and stability in his life.” He added: “Only an apostle who is disinterested, humble, and chaste can lead souls on into the battle against the ever-growing forces of greed, ambition, and impurity.”
St. Faustina prayed: “Let Your divinity radiate through me, O You who dwell in my soul.”
內修靈魂散發超性
每天聖體聖事後，加爾各答聖德蘭修女的仁愛傳教會誦念聖若望、亨利、牛滿撰寫的基督豪光祈文。
『親愛的耶穌，求袮幫助我，無論身到那裡都能散發袮的芬芳。用袮的心靈和生命滿注我的靈魂。滲透和擁有全部的我，讓我的生命只為能散發袮的光彩。讓它經我並在我內散發，讓我接觸的每一個靈魂在我們靈魂內可以感到袮的存在…』
若翰肖塔爾院牧寫道：『靈魂皈依的一個最艱巨的障礙，事實上是因為天主是一位隱蔽的天主。但天主在祂的美善中，在一些事情上顯示了自己，經由祂的聖人，甚至經由熱心的靈魂們。這樣，信眾們便透過這一切得以看見，因此而明白一些天主的奧秘。』肖塔爾院牧指出，內修生活使使徒們散發信，望，愛，慈悲，謙遜，堅強，溫和和克己。
有關信德的散發，肖塔爾院牧寫道：『在我們的日子裡，從來未有這麼多的傳道，論證或一系列博學的護教著作，但就大部分信徒而言，信仰卻是這樣的死寂。那些職責在教導的，看信仰只是理智的行為；但是事實上，意志也非常重要的。他們忘記了這信仰是一份超性的恩賜，而且在見到可信的動機與發出確切的信德之間存在一條大的鴻溝。只有天主連同受教者的意志才能橋接於這鴻溝: 而教道理者聖德反射出的神光對完成這工作具有巨大的幫助。』
肖塔爾院牧指出一位祈禱的人是沒有可能不能散發希望的。他寫道：『最好的方法使人聽你的說話，是為他們帶出喜樂地背負十字架的秘決，十字架是所有人的命運。這秘決在於聖體和對天堂的希望。』聖若瑟約沙法能夠充滿信念地講論天堂，以致本來害怕死亡的人們跟他談話後，他們都體驗到內心全然的改變。他們甚至宣稱：『我不再害怕死亡；如果瑟約沙神父那時候在就近的話，我甚至渴望它不久到來。』
愛天主是最好的方法把靈魂與罪惡分開，並導引至完美境界。聖方濟各、沙雷氏說：『一個不慈愛的熱忱是來自不真實的愛。』一位講道家寫道：『天主意願是只有透過愛人才能為人行善，麻木不仁永遠不能照亮或啟發人修德行。』費伯神父說：『仁慈是一己的滿溢流向其他人處。要能仁慈是把他人放諸於自己。仁慈使罪人信服多於熱忱，口才或學習，這三樣，若能感化人是因為有仁慈。』
肖塔爾院牧指出使徒沒有內修生活的，因此也沒有謙遜，會被他的私慾任憑擺佈。他寫道：『唯獨謙遜能把他保持在正確的判斷路向，防止他在衝動下作事，會為他的生活維持較完美的平衡和穩定。』他補充說：『一位使徒只有能夠脫俗，謙遜和熱心，他才能可以帶領靈魂征戰那不停增長的貪婪，野心和不潔的勢力』
聖女傳天娜祈禱說：『讓袮的神聖經我散發，噢，你臨在我的靈魂中。』