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 : Of the sacred complacency of love; and first of what it consists
Chapter 2 : How by holy complacency we are made as little infants at our Saviour’s breasts
Chapter 3 : That holy complacency gives our heart to God, and makes us feel a perpetual desire in fruition
Chapter 4 : Of the loving condolence by which the complacency of love is still better declared
Chapter 5 : Of the condolence and complacency of love in the Passion of Our Lord
Chapter 6 : Of the love of benevolence which we exercise towards our Saviour by way of desire
Chapter 8 : How holy benevolence produces the praise of the divine well-beloved
Chapter 9 : How benevolence makes us call all creatures to the praise of God
Chapter 10 : How the desire to praise God makes us aspire to heaven
Chapter 11 : How we practise the love of benevolence in the praises which our Saviour and his Mother give to God
Chapter 12 : Of the Sovereign praise which God gives unto himself, and how we exercise benevolence in it
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BOOK 5 : Of the two principal exercises of holy love which consist in complacency and benevolence