The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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- THE SPIRIT OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
- THE SPIRIT OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE.
- SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF
- THE FRENCH PUBLISHER TO THE READER, 1639.
- THE SPIRIT OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
- UPON PERFECT VIRTUE.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' ESTIMATE OF VARIOUS VIRTUES.
- UPON THE LESSER VIRTUES.
- UPON INCREASE OF FAITH.
- UPON TEMPTATIONS AGAINST FAITH.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
- OUR MISERY APPEALS TO GOD'S MERCY.
- UPON SELF-DISTRUST.
- UPON THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD.
- WAITING UPON GOD.
- UPON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HOLY DESIRE OF REWARD AND A MERCENARY SPIRIT.
- CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.
- GOD SHOULD SUFFICE FOR US ALL.
- CHARITY THE SHORT ROAD TO PERFECTION.
- UPON WHAT IT IS TO LOVE GOD TRULY.
- UPON THE LOVE OF GOD IN GENERAL.
- ALL FOR LOVE OF GOD.
- THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- UPON THE LOVE OF GOD, CALLED LOVE OF BENEVOLENCE.
- DISINTERESTED LOVE OF GOD.
- UPON THE CHARACTER OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
- UPON NOT PUTTING LIMITS TO OUR LOVE OF GOD.
- UPON THE LAW AND THE JUST MAN.
- UPON DESIRES.
- HOW CHARITY EXCELS BOTH FAITH AND HOPE.
- SOME THOUGHTS OF BLESSED FRANCIS ON THE PASSION.
- UPON THE VANITY OF HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY.
- UPON THE PURE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR.
- UPON BEARING WITH ONE ANOTHER.
- UPON FRATERNAL CORRECTION.
- UPON FINDING EXCUSES FOR THE FAULTS OF OUR FELLOW-MEN.
- UPON NOT JUDGING OTHERS.
- UPON JUDGING OURSELVES.
- UPON SLANDER AND DETRACTION.
- UPON HASTY JUDGMENTS.
- UPON RIDICULING ONE'S NEIGHBOUR.
- UPON CONTRADICTING OTHERS.
- UPON LOVING OUR ENEMIES.
- UPON FORGIVING OUR ENEMIES.
- UPON THE VIRTUE OF CONDESCENSION.
- HOW BLESSED FRANCIS ADAPTED HIMSELF TO TIMES, PLACES, AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
- UPON THE DEFERENCE DUE TO OUR INFERIORS AND DEPENDENTS.
- UPON THE WAY TO TREAT SERVANTS.
- ANOTHER INSTANCE OF BLESSED FRANCIS' GENTLENESS WITH HIS OWN SERVANTS.
- THE HOLY BISHOP NEVER REFUSED WHAT WAS ASKED OF HIM.
- UPON ALMSGIVING.
- OUR SAINT'S HOPEFULNESS IN REGARD TO THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' SOLICITUDE FOR MALEFACTORS CONDEMNED TO DEATH.
- UPON THE SMALL NUMBER OF THE ELECT.
- TO LOVE TO BE HATED, AND TO HATE TO BE LOVED.
- UPON OBEDIENCE.
- UPON THE OBEDIENCE THAT MAY BE PRACTISED BY SUPERIORS.
- AN INSTANCE OF OUR SAINT'S OBEDIENCE.
- UPON THE LOVE OF HOLY POVERTY.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON POVERTY OF SPIRIT.
- FRANCIS' LOVE OF THE POOR.
- UPON THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF POVERTY.
- UPON PROSPERITY.
- UPON CHARITY AND CHASTITY.
- UPON PURITY OF HEART.
- UPON CHASTITY AND HUMILITY.
- UPON MODESTY.
- THE CONTEMPT HE FELT FOR HIS BODY.
- UPON OUR SAINT'S HUMILITY.
- UPON MERE HUMBLENESS OF SPEECH.
- UPON VARIOUS DEGREES OF HUMILITY.
- UPON HUMILIATION.
- HUMILITY WITH REGARD TO PERFECTION.
- UPON EXCUSES.
- UPON OUR GOOD NAME.
- UPON DESPISING THE ESTEEM OF MEN.
- UPON THE VIRTUES WE SHOULD PRACTISE WHEN CALUMNIATED.
- UPON SOME SPIRITUAL MAXIMS.
- UPON PATIENCE.
- HOW TO PROFIT BY BEARING WITH INSULTS.
- UPON BEARING WITH IMPORTUNITIES.
- THAT HE WHO COMPLAINS SINS.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' CALMNESS IN TRIBULATION.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' TEST OF PATIENCE IN SUFFERING.
- UPON LONG ILLNESSES.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' HOLY INDIFFERENCE IN ILLNESS.
- UPON THE SHAPE OF THE CROSS.
- A DIAMOND CROSS.
- HOLY MAGDALEN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.
- UPON THE POWER OF GENTLENESS AND PATIENCE.
- A REJOINDER BOTH STRIKING AND INSTRUCTIVE.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' FAVOURITE BEATITUDE.
- HIS GRAVITY AND AFFABILITY.
- HOW BLESSED FRANCIS DEALT WITH A CRIMINAL WHO DESPAIRED OF SALVATION.
- UPON MORTIFICATION.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON FASTING.[1]
- DOUBTS SOLVED AS TO SOLDIERS FASTING.
- THE GOLDEN MEAN IN DISPENSATIONS.
- UPON THE WORDS, "EAT OF ANYTHING THAT IS SET BEFORE YOU."
- UPON THE STATE OF PERFECTION.
- MARKS OF PROGRESS IN PERFECTION.
- UPON THE PERFECTION AIMED AT IN RELIGIOUS HOUSES.
- UPON FRUGALITY.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' ESTEEM OF THE VIRTUE OF SIMPLICITY.
- BLESSED FRANCIS' LOVE OF EXACTITUDE.
- A TEST OF RELIGIOUS VOCATION.
- UPON FOLLOWING THE COMMON LIFE.
- UPON THE JUDGING OF VOCATIONS.
- UPON PRUDENCE AND SIMPLICITY.
- THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- UPON MENTAL PRAYER.
- UPON ASPIRATIONS.
- UPON INTERIOR RECOLLECTION AND EJACULATORY PRAYERS.
- UPON DOING AND ENDURING.
- UPON MORTIFICATION AND PRAYER.
- UPON THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
- HIS UNITY OF SPIRIT WITH GOD.
- HIS GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR SPIRITUAL CONSOLATIONS.
- UPON THE SHEDDING OF TEARS.
- UPON JOY AND SADNESS.
- UPON THE DEGREES OF TRUE DEVOTION.
- THE TEST OF TRUE DEVOTION.
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SERVANT OF GOD.
- THAT DEVOTION DOES NOT ALWAYS SPRING FROM CHARITY.
- UPON PERFECT CONTENTMENT IN THE PRIVATION OF ALL CONTENT.
- UPON THE WILL OF GOD.
- HIS RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD.
- THAT WE MUST ALWAYS SUBMIT OURSELVES TO GOD'S HOLY WILL.
- HIS SUBLIME THOUGHTS ON HOLY INDIFFERENCE.
- NOTHING, SAVE SIN, HAPPENS TO US BUT BY THE WILL OF GOD.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON ABANDONING OURSELVES TO GOD.
- UPON INTERIOR DESOLATION.
- UPON THE PRESENCE IN OUR SOULS OF THE GRACE OF GOD.
- UPON OUR DESIRE TO SAVE OUR SOUL.
- UPON GOOD NATURAL INCLINATIONS.
- HOW TO SPEAK OF GOD.
- UPON ECCENTRICITIES IN DEVOTION.
- UPON CONFRATERNITIES.
- UPON INTERCOURSE WITH THE WORLD.
- AGAINST OVER-EAGERNESS.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON LIBERTY OF SPIRIT.
- UPON NATURE AND GRACE.
- UPON EXAGGERATED INTROSPECTION.
- UPON INTERIOR REFORMATION.
- HIS VISION OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY.
- HIS DEVOTION TO OUR BLESSED LADY.
- HIS DEVOTION TO THE HOLY WINDING SHEET OF TURIN.
- UPON MERIT.
- UPON GOOD WILL AND GOOD DESIRES.
- AGAINST THE MAKING OF RASH VOWS.
- UPON THE PRO-PASSIONS OF OUR LORD.
- HIS VICTORY OVER THE PASSIONS OF LOVE AND ANGER.
- UPON OUR PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS.
- HOW HE CAME TO WRITE HIS PHILOTHEA.
- UPON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SAINTS.
- UPON THE LOVE OF GOD'S WORD.
- HIS LOVE OF RETIREMENT.
- HOW HE SANCTIFIED HIS RECREATIONS.
- WHAT HE DREW FROM SOME LINES OF POETRY.
- UPON BEING CONTENT WITH OUR POSITION IN LIFE.
- UPON SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CONTENTEDNESS.
- THE REVERENCE OF BLESSED FRANCIS FOR THE SICK.
- UPON THE CARE OF THE SICK.
- UPON SPEAKING WELL OF THE DEAD.
- UPON DEATH.
- UPON WISHING TO DIE.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- UPON THE DESIRE OF HEAVEN.
- WHAT IT IS TO DIE IN GOD.
- UPON LENGTH OF LIFE.
- UPON PURGATORY.
- UPON PENANCE.
- UPON PENITENT CONFUSION.
- UPON INTERIOR PEACE AMIDST ANXIETIES.
- UPON DISCOURAGEMENT.
- UPON RISING AFTER A FALL.
- UPON KINDLINESS TOWARDS OURSELVES.
- UPON IMPERFECTIONS.
- THE JUST MAN FALLS SEVEN TIMES IN THE DAY.
- UPON THE PURGATIVE WAY.
- UPON VENIAL SIN.
- UPON COMPLICITY IN THE SINS OF ANOTHER.
- UPON EQUIVOCATING.
- UPON SOLITUDE.
- UPON VANITY.
- UPON THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH PUFFS UP.
- UPON SCRUPLES.
- UPON TEMPTATIONS.
- UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- THOUGHTS ON THE INCARNATION.
- UPON CONFESSION AND COMMUNION.
- UPON CONFESSION.
- UPON A CHANGE OF CONFESSOR.
- UPON DIFFERENT METHODS OF DIRECTION.
- ADVICE UPON HAVING A DIRECTOR.
- UPON TRUE AND MISTAKEN ZEAL.
- UPON THE INSTITUTION OF THE VISITATION ORDER.
- HIS DEFENCE OF HIS NEW CONGREGATION OF THE VISITATION.
- UPON THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY.
- HE REBUKES PHARISAISM.
- UPON RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS.
- UPON UNLEARNED SUPERIORS.
- UPON THE FOUNDING OF CONVENTS.
- UPON RECEIVING THE INFIRM INTO COMMUNITIES.
- UPON SELF-PITY.
- UPON THE GOVERNMENT OF NUNS BY RELIGIOUS MEN.
- THAT WE MUST NOT BE WEDDED TO OUR OWN PLANS.
- HIS VIEWS REGARDING ECCLESIASTICAL DIGNITIES.
- HIS PROMOTION TO THE BISHOPRIC OF GENEVA AND HIS REFUSAL OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF PARIS.
- A BISHOP'S CARE FOR HIS FLOCK.
- ON THE FIRST DUTY OF BISHOPS.
- UPON THE PASTORAL CHARGE.
- UPON THE CARE OF SOULS.
- UPON LEARNING AND PIETY.
- ADVICE TO BISHOP CAMUS AS TO RESIGNING HIS SEE.
- THE JOYOUS SPIRIT OF BLESSED FRANCIS.
- UPON DAILY MASS. HIS ADVICE TO A YOUNG PRIEST.[1]
- A PRIEST SAYING MASS SHOULD BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS.
- BLESSED FRANCIS ENCOURAGES THE BISHOP OF BELLEY.
- UPON A COMPASSIONATE MIND.
- UPON DOING ONE'S DUTY, WITHOUT RESPECT OF PERSONS.
- THE HONOUR DUE TO VIRTUE.
- UPON MEMORY AND JUDGMENT.
- A PRIEST SHOULD NOT AIM AT IMITATING IN HIS SERMONS ANY PARTICULAR PREACHER.
- UPON SHORT SERMONS.
- UPON PREACHING AND PREACHERS.
- BLESSED FRANCIS AND THE BISHOP OF BELLEY'S SERMON.
- UPON CONTROVERSY.
- THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
- UPON REASON AND REASONING.
- UPON QUOTING HOLY SCRIPTURE.
- UPON POLITICAL DIPLOMACY.
- UPON AMBITION.
- UPON COURTS AND COURTIERS.
- UPON THE CARNIVAL.
- AN INSTANCE OF HIS COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS.
- UPON HUNTING.
- UPON THE FEAR OF GHOSTS.
- HIS PORTRAIT.
- UPON BLESSED FRANCIS' TRUE CHARITY.
- THE END.
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