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. Canon Surmont, Vicar General, Westminster, 20th November 1924. 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.
This book is truly medicine for the soul. Above all, he is a spiritual genius, and thus was made a Doctor of the Church. Even non-Christians have admired his prose. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results.Themes include:Pursuing a devout life whole-heartedlyIncorporating prayer and sacraments into a busy scheduleGrowing in virtueBattling wisely against. His writings are characterized by sublime common sense. Written over 400 years ago, Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. 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. 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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