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 : Mystical Theology – another name for prayer
Chapter 2 : Meditation – the first step in prayer or mystical theology
Chapter 3 : Contemplation described – the first way it differs from meditation
Chapter 4 : Our knowledge of God in this world is the source, not the standard, of love
Chapter 5 : The second way in which meditation and contemplation differ
Chapter 6 : Contemplation is easy – the third way it differs from meditation
Chapter 7 : The state of loving recollection experienced in contemplation
Chapter 8 : The stillness of the recollected soul
Chapter 9 : How such stillness of soul is maintained
Chapter 10 : Degrees in tranquillity, and how to preserve it
Chapter 11 : More about degrees in tranquillity: the self-renouncement it sometimes involves
Chapter 12 : Love melts the soul till it flows into God
Chapter 13 : Love wounds the heart
Chapter 14 : Some other ways charity has of wounding hearts
Chapter 15 : The wounded heart pines away with love
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