Introduction to the Devout Life

What does the contemporary reader feel and experience when he stops to read the great spiritual masters who lived many centuries ago? How would they feel announcing the Gospel to the men of that time? Saint Francis de Sales would probably say different things today and in a different way. However, the Introduction to the Devout Life, after so much time of having been written and even though it has a language, a stylistic form and points of view proper to a distant era, retains its strength and relevance because its spirit is alive and makes us feel that God is very close to us.

SAN FRANCISCO DE SALES

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