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A Spirituality for Everyone

St. Francis de Sales presents a spirituality that can be practised by everyone in all walks of life

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES AND THE CANTICLE OF CANTICLES

“The Holy Spirit teaches that the lips of the divine Spouse, meaning the Church…” – these are the first words, and before ending the book, Francis offers us an earnest invitation to imitate the Sulamite by those “loving arrows” which our heart ought to shoot forth constantly toward the Beloved. These are “ejaculatory prayers,” a particular expression for that prayer which becomes a loving word, an arrow which goes straight to the heart.

The assimilation (of this) is actually the fulfilment of the “allegorical” mission of the Canticle, since the Bridegroom is Jesus Christ:

Ah, Lord, I am yours.

My love is mine and I am his.

My life is Jesus Christ.

Edited by Andre Brix OSFS,

Translated by Thomas Dailey OSFS

Bangalore, India: SFS Publications, 1989

[ISBN: 81-85376-40-9]

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