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Loading... Thy Will Be Done: Letters to Persons in the World (edition 1995)by St. Francis de Sales (Author)
Work InformationThy Will Be Done: Letters to Persons in the World by St. Francis De Sales
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Library Of St. Francis De Sales : works of the doctor of the church : translated into english by the rev henry benedict mackey : I - A book of Christian spirituality made up of letters to various individuals seeking his advice. The most thoughtful and rigorous ones are the letters to Jane de Chantal who founded a religious order. I liked how the advice tended toward the more practical than the esoteric, and how he would sometimes counsel people to ease up on overly rigorous devotions for the sake of reasonableness. There are interesting glimpses of everyday life when he has to address those sorts of difficult life situations which we know from our own time. Despite the era in which these letters were written in the aftermath of the Counter-Reformation, there is virtually nothing here about doctrinal polemic as one might have expected. no reviews | add a review
In his letters, Saint Francis de Sales provides his most intimate and practical advice on the spiritual life. Here the saint writes with his characteristic warmth and insight into human nature. The Veuillot-Mackey collection consists of 186 letters of the saint addressed to people in lay life. Subjects include discerning vocations, questions of marriage, lawsuits, and life decisions, family births and deaths, marital life and relationships, private devotions, prayer and meditation, and conformity to the will of God and the situation in which we find ourselves. Included in this collection are many letters of spiritual direction to Madame de Chantal, with whom St. Frances de Sales would found the Congregation of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin. No library descriptions found. |
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