St. Francis spent countless hours counseling souls and hearing confessions, helping people become better husbands, wives, parents, and children.
And he wrote over 20,000 letters to souls who couldn't travel but desperately sought his spiritual wisdom and guidance.
More than 2,000 of these letters exist today, and Sophia Institute Press has pulled together dozens of letters that we believe are particular helpful to souls today.
In Thy Will Be Done!, you will find 58 letters personally written by St. Francis to someone like you who was struggling with the same problems that you and I face today.
Reading these letters, you will be consoled by the warmth, wisdom, and holy sympathy as the love of this great saint reaches out to you across the centuries. Whatever your circumstances may be, there's wisdom here to make your life holier -- and happier.
Here is some of the wisdom you will find for life's most difficult situations:
*To an old man preparing for death;
*To a woman distressed by her lack of spiritual progress;
* To a newlywed, teaching the duties of married life and how to fulfill them;
* To a new widow who finds life alone a terrible burden
* To a young man, showing him how to treat his parents better;
* To a married woman trying to bear patiently her live-in parents-in-law;
* To a woman troubled by sinfulness in the world;
* To a businessman, showing him how to find God in his busy life;
* plus help for dozens of other problems we all face!
You will also find many solution to life's common troubles, including:
* Family problems: how to keep calm, and even use troubles to improve your family;
* Anxiety about the future: your job, your children, anything at all. It can be overcome!
* Your flaws: the right response to them. Plus, ways to bear those you can't overcome;
* Family, work, prayer: which should come first? How to set your priorities;
* Three criteria for judging pastimes: Do you really know which are spiritually healthy and which are dangerous?
* Helplessness: coping when you're not in control, especially during times of sickness or loneliness;
* The roots of heresy: why you must understand Scripture in light of Church teachings.
by St. Francis de Sales
264 pgs pbk $16.95
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Saint Vincent de Paul says that holy simplicity is the virtue that draws us closest to God, and makes us most like Him.
It is no wonder, then, that Jesus praised the little children and the pure of heart! In them he saw the goodness that arises from an untroubled simplicity of life -- a simplicity which in the saints is completely focused on its true center, God.
That's easy to know. It's simple to say. But it's hard to achieve.
In Holy Simplicity, the wise Jesuit priest Raoul Plus (1882-1958) provides a remedy for for even the most tangled lives.
Relying on the words of Jesus and the lives of the saints, he maps out a sure path to the simplicity which Jesus praised, a simplicity that bestows on all of us who seek it happiness, courage, and inner peace.
In these pages, you will come to know:
* Three obstacles to true simplicity, and how to overcome each one;
* How simplicity expels distress and fills each simple soul with peace;
* Why you must seek true simplicity even more vigorously than you seek humility;
* The simplicity of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph-and how to imitate it;
* The freedom simplicity brings -- from fear, confusion, distraction, and even sin!
* Purgatory: if you don't achieve simplicity here, you'll spend time achieving it there.
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