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Interiority

 

Interiority

Corrignan, Francois.  The Spirituality of Francis de Sales: A Way of Life [Interiority]. For Francis de Sales, to begin with interiority is both a principle of the Christian life and, at the same time, an apostolic method.   He gives expression to this principle in a chapter in the Introduction to the Devout Life which, curiously, treats of the “exercises of exterior mortification”. 

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Reason must reign within Interiority

Corrignan, Francois. The Spirituality of Francis de Sales: A Way of Life [Reason must reign within Interiority].  First of all, interiority.  That is a fundamental mental principle with Francis de Sales.  But he is not looking for the interiority associated exclusively with intimacy; that can become nothing more than pure introspection; it can remain on the level of religious sentiment or romantic feeling.

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Letters of Spiritual Direction, Theme V: The Salesian stress on interiority, that is, on beginning from the inner, hidden life, and working outward in whatever setting or circumstances, finds eloquent expression in de Sales’ language of the heart.  To live Jesus meant to engrave that name on the human heart.

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