The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales. Saint de Sales Francis

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE .

       PROTESTATION.

       PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTION.

       THE MONTH OF MARY.

       THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

       FIRST DAY.

       SECOND DAY.

       THIRD DAY.

       FOURTH DAY.

       FIFTH DAY.

       SIXTH DAY.

       SEVENTH DAY.

       EIGHTH DAY.

       NINTH DAY.

       TENTH DAY.

       ELEVENTH DAY.

       TWELFTH DAY.

       THIRTEENTH DAY.

       FOURTEENTH DAY.

       FIFTEENTH DAY.

       SIXTEENTH DAY.

       SEVENTEENTH DAY.

       EIGHTEENTH DAY.

       NINETEENTH DAY.

       TWENTIETH DAY.

       TWENTY-FIRST DAY.

       TWENTY-SECOND DAY.

       TWENTY-THIRD DAY.

       TWENTY-FOURTH DAY.

       TWENTY-FIFTH DAY.

       TWENTY-SIXTH DAY.

       TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY.

       TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY.

       TWENTY-NINTH DAY.

       THIRTIETH DAY.

       THIRTY-FIRST DAY.

       ACT OF CONSECRATION OF ST. FRANCIS OF SALES TO THE MOST HOLY VIRGIN.

PREFACE.

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      OF the many who by their writings have laboured to celebrate the sublime prerogatives and virtues of the Mother of God, there is not one whose language is more adapted to the devotions of the month of Mary than St. Francis of Sales. Everything, says a pious author, in this admirable Saint enchants and fascinates us; whoever reads his writings attentively, feels constrained, not only to honour and venerate him, but also to love him. With him there is a peculiar grace to console, as well as to perfect, the soul. He adapts himself to the capacities of humble minds, whilst no one has more knowledge than he of the most exalted perfection.

      The sweet mildness of this Saint sprang from the meekness of which his soul was full. It is a difficult task to preserve peace in the soul, and well he knew it, declaring that he 'lived in a continual fear of losing, in one quarter of an hour, all that meekness which he had acquired by twenty years of combat.' St. Bonaventure learnt all his science at the foot of the Crucifix, and it was there, also, that St. Francis acquired all his benignity, fighting for it, we may say, hand-to-hand against his natural impetuosity. This virtue by degrees penetrated the inmost parts of his soul, so that it was not only manifested in all the actions of his life, but it directed also his pen, and enabled him to make use of the most delicate comparisons and ingenious СКАЧАТЬ