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 : How love unites the soul with God in prayer
Chapter 2 : How different degrees of union achieved in prayer
Chapter 3 : The supreme degree of union – suspension of the faculties, and rapture
Chapter 4 : Rapture – the first type
Chapter 5 : The Second type of rapture
Chapter 6 : Signs of wholesome rapture; the third type
Chapter 7 : Love is the life of the soul
Chapter 8 : St. Paul – wonderful advocate for the ecstatic, supernatural life
Chapter 9 : The crowning consequence of rapturous love – the death of the lovers; first, those who die in charity
Chapter 10 : Those who die out of love for God, or because of their love for him
Chapter 11 : Some of God’s lovers even die of love
Chapter 12 : A remarkable story of the knight who died of love on Mount Olivet
Chapter 13 : The blessed Virgin, God’s Mother, died of love for her Son
Chapter 14 : The glorious Virgin died of a love that was utterly gentle, tranquil
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