![]() ![]() The contemporary reader will find much practical advice here: If you are a young mother, do not fret because you cannot pray like a nun find the method that enhances your vocation as a mother. And the writing is a delight.ĭe Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers. Francis de Sales who is seeking advice on how to balance her life in the world with a life of prayer, it has an appealingly personal tone. This book has staying power: It has been in print since 1665, and it is easy to see why. Francis de Sales draws in grape harvesters, cinnamon traders, hunters and tigresses-and makes it work. Upon first reading Introduction to the Devout Life, I was won over by a passage on the guidance of souls in which St. ![]()
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