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 : A description of mystical theology, which is no other thing than prayer
Chapter 2 : Of meditation – the first degree of prayer or mystical theology
Chapter 3 : A description of contemplation, and of the first difference that there is between it and meditation
Chapter 4 : That love in this life takes its origin but not its excellence from the knowledge of God
Chapter 5 : The second difference between meditation and contemplation
Chapter 6 : That contemplation is made without labour, which is the third difference between it and meditation
Chapter 7 : Of the loving recollection of the soul in contemplation
Chapter 8 : Of the repose of a soul recollected in her well-beloved
Chapter 9 : How this sacred repose is practised
Chapter 10 : Of various degrees of this repose, and how it is to be preserved
Chapter 12 : Of the outflowing (escoulement) or liquefaction of the soul in God
Chapter 13 : Of the wound of love
Chapter 14 : Of some other means by which holy love wounds the heart
Chapter 15 : Of the affectionate languishing of the heart wounded with love
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BOOK 6 : Of the exercises of holy love in prayer