Category: St. Francis de Sales
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Introduction to the Devout Life, 4-8 and 4-9: Remedies for small temptations.
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No comments on Introduction to the Devout Life, 4-8 and 4-9: Remedies for small temptations.This is part of a continuing series. An index of all posts on St. Francis de Sales' work Introduction to the Devout Life is here. A post outlining part 4 of the book is here. Whereas Chapter 7 of part 4 deals with comparably rare tempations to serious or grave sins, Chapters 8 and 9 together deal with the…
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Introduction to the Devout Life, 4-7: Remedies for temptations to grave sin.
This is part of a continuing series. An index of all posts on St. Francis de Sales' work Introduction to the Devout Life is here. A post outlining part 4 of the book is here. Chapter 7 of the "troubleshooting guide" of St. Francis's handbook — that is, of Part 4 — is entitled "Remedies for Great…
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Introduction to the Devout Life, 4-3 through 4-6. Troubleshooting: Entertaining temptations.
This is part of a continuing series. An index of all posts on St. Francis de Sales' work Introduction to the Devout Life is here. A post outlining part 4 of the book is here. Chapters 3 through 6 of part 4, which I have been calling the "troubleshooting guide," have to do with temptations…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: 4-2, “Courage in Devotion.”
Moving on through the troubleshooting guide that is part 4 of Francis de Sales's work (which I'm blogging about fairly steadily), we come to Chapter 2, "Courage in Devotion." This quite short chapter deals with feelings of discouragement early in the journey. Though light is beautiful and lovely it dazzles our eyes if we have…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: 4-1, “Worldly Wisdom.”
An index of all posts on St. Francis de Sales's Introduction to the Devout Life is here. *** As I wrote in the last post, Part 4 of the book is kind of the "Troubleshooting" section of the how-to-live-devotedly manual. And the very first chapter is almost like a warning: "You will have this kind…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: Structure of Part 4, “Troubleshooting.” No, wait, I mean “Overcoming Temptations.”
I've learned by now that instead of jumping right into discussing each chapter of St. Francis de Sales's work, I should consider each section of it as a whole so I can see where he's going with it. And so let's move on to try to understand the purpose of Part 4, "Overcoming Temptations." If…
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Introduction to the Devout Life…. how’s that going?
So I temporarily paused my blogging about the book Introduction to the Devout Life while I tried to put into practice some of its suggestions, which I organized in this step-by-step grand plan. I have followed through a bit. I thought I’d write about how it was going. * * * SETUP PHASE 1…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: Plan of attack.
Alternate title: I hope this is the most important post I make all year. And on the Feast of the Transfiguration, too! An auspicious (if audacious) day to lay out a plan for "transfiguring" one's own spiritual life. The following is my plan for implementing the advice in Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de…
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Introduction to the Devout Life shout out.
So, I understand that despite the dearth of comments, there are at least a few people following along with my series here on Introduction to the Devout Life, which is also entangled to some extent with my resolution to detach from "my" time by applying some of what I learned in giving up gluttony a…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: Which virtue to choose?
St. Francis appears to advise us to work on our faults and seek our perfection one step at a time; so I'm going to take that advice to heart in blogging about the particular virtues presented in Part 3. I'm definitely not going to blog about all of them at once. The first few chapters…
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Introduction to the Devout Life 3-23 and 3-24: Discernment in mortification and in social interaction.
As I wrote previously, I'm not exactly skipping ahead so much as I am considering the chapters of part 3 out of order: chapters 1, 2, 37, 23, and 24 all have in common a topic of discernment of how to practice virtue, and so it seems prudent to read them first before diving into…
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Introduction to the Devout Life: The self-help re-org AND desiring the right kinds of good things.
Last time I wrote about Introduction to the Devout Life, I arranged the chapters of part III, "The Practice of Virtue," more thematically. Although I think Francis's approach is shockingly modern for the early 1600s, the way he has organized his information is not what we expect when we crack open a self-help book these…
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