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 agreeable all virtues are to God
Chapter 2 : That divine love makes the virtues immeasurably more agreeable to God than they are of their own nature
Chapter 3 : That there are some virtues which divine love raises to a higher degree of excellence than others
Chapter 5 : How love spreads its excellence over the other virtues, perfecting their particular excellence
Chapter 7 : That perfect virtues are never one without the other
Chapter 8 : How charity comprehends all the virtues
Chapter 9 : That the virtues have their perfection from divine love
Chapter 10 : A digression upon the imperfection of the virtues of the pagans
Chapter 11 : How human actions are without worth when they are done without divine love
Chapter 12 : How holy love returning into the soul, brings back to life all the works which sin had destroyed
Chapter 13 : How we are to reduce all the exercise of the virtues, and all our actions to holy love
Chapter 14 : The practice of what has been said in the preceding chapter
Chapter 15 : How charity contains in it the gifts of the Holy Ghost
Chapter 16 : Of the loving fear of spouses; a continuation of the same subject
Chapter 17 : How servile fear remains together with holy love
Chapter 18 : How love makes use of natural, servile and mercenary fear
Chapter 19 : How sacred love contains the twelve fruits of the Holy Ghost, together with the eight beatitudes of the Gospel
Chapter 20 : How divine love makes use of all the passions and affections of the soul, and reduces them to its obedience
Chapter 21 : That sadness is almost always useless, yea, contrary to the service of holy love
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BOOK 11 : Of the sovereign authority which sacred love holds over all the virtues, actions and perfections of the soul