To see if the type and size of the font used in this book are easy to read and are acceptable to you, we encourage that you download and print out a sample page. Francis de Sales points out, adorns every vocation. Canon Surmont, Vicar General, Westminster, 20th November 1924. He guides us to the knowledge that we are all called to the devout life. This edition has been re-typeset using the text of the 1943 edition originally published by Burns Oates and Washbourne, London, under the imprimatur of Edm. Introduction to the Devout Life by Saint Francis De Sales, edited and translated by Allan Ross. Whether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or are more advanced in the spiritual life. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results. Francis de Sales masterpiece written in the seventeenth century. Written over 400 years ago, the Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results. One of the greatest spiritual classics of all time is Introduction to the Devout Life, the St. This book is truly medicine for the soul. Written over 400 years ago, Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. Above all, he is a spiritual genius, and thus was made a Doctor of the Church. Even non-Christians have admired his prose. His writings are characterized by sublime common sense. Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis de Sales was a master psychologist, with a special gift for teaching practical morality.

It has always occupied a privileged position in the Church: no guide ever written provides so complete, so balanced and so practical an approach to the spiritual life. Since its first publication in 1609 this book has never gone out of print. This book does what many similar books fail to do, teach the reader to grow in holiness, step by simple step. Citation: Godless owls, devout larks: Study explores association between religiosity and morning preference, life satisfaction (2023, May 24) retrieved from. Written for the layman surrounded by worldliness, this is a masterpiece of mystical and devotional literature, by a great and much loved Doctor of the Church.

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