Salesian Literature
A Spirituality for Everyone
St. Francis de Sales presents a spirituality that can be practised by everyone in all walks of life
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A TREATISE ON THE LOVE OF GOD
Chapter 1 : The perfections we see in God are one single infinite perfection
Chapter 2 : God knows only one activity – that of being God
Chapter 3 : God’s providence in general
Chapter 4 : God’s supernatural providence in regard to rational creatures
Chapter 5 : Divine providence furnished mankind with the riches of ransoms
Chapter 6 : Some special privileges of providence in man’s redemption
Chapter 7 : Providence is wonderful in the variety of graces bestowed on man
Chapter 8 : How much God wants our love
Chapter 9 : How God’s eternal love for us prompts our hearts with his inspirations so that we may love him
Chapter 10 : We often reject the inspiration and refuse to love God
Chapter 11 : It is no fault of God’s, if we lack perfect charity
Chapter 12 : God’s inspirations leave us perfectly free to accept or reject them
Chapter 13 : The first impression of charity which God’s grace makes on the soul, before it even has faith
Chapter 14 : The impression of charity received by faith
Chapter 15 : The tremendous impression of charity we receive through the virtue of hope
Chapter 16 : How love is practised in hope
Chapter 17 : Charity, in hope, is genuine but imperfect
Chapter 18 : Love in penance; the various kinds of penance
Chapter 19 : Penance without love is imperfect
Chapter 20 : The blending of love and sorrow that is contrition
Chapter 21 : Our Lord’s loving attractions lead us to faith and charity
Chapter 22 : A brief description of charity
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