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Holiness

 

Universal Call to Holiness

Introduction to the Devout Life, Preface: Almost all those who have up to now written about devotion have been concerned with instructing people wholly withdrawn from the world or have at least taught a kind of devotion that leads to such a total withdrawal.

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Introduction to the Devout Life, Part I, Chapter 3: Devotion is suitable to every kind of life-situation and occupation. 

 

Corrignan, Francois, The Spirituality of Francis de Sales: A Way of Life [Introduction] If there is one message in particular that Francis de Sales preached to Christians of his day, it is this: All are called to holiness. All are called – not just monks, cloistered nuns and a few spiritual athletes who are capable of rigorous fasts, long vigils and harsh austerities

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