From St. Francis de Sales — Never before in English

From St. Francis de Sales Never Before Published in English!   This short, practical guide will develop in you the soul-nourishing habits that lead to sanctity. As he did for saints and sinners in his own time, St. Francis de Sales will stiffen your resolve and help you gain small victories over unruly passions, and restore in you a trusting confidence in Jesus Christ. Soon you'll find yourself delivered from the chains of self-love as your soul opens to divine goodness and your heart is shaped into a fitting place for Christ to dwell and reign eternally. If you find it difficult to live amid the clamor of the world with your eyes fixed on Christ alone, let St. Francis de Sales teach you how to live as a true rose among thorns as you learn . . . What to do when you stop finding consolation during prayer   How to place yourself in the presence of God   How busy people should pray   Do you fear vice more than you love virtue?  A guide to discernment   How to be patient with your family   The dangers of too many devotions   How to know when your feelings are from God or the devil   What to do about repeated spiritual dryness   The three things you must do to be at peace   How to avoid thoughts that give us anxious and restless minds. Absorb the wisdom in these holy pages, and you'll soon make true progress on your spiritual journey and navigate with confidence the treacherous waters of our secular world.   Roses Among Thorns by St. Francis de Sales 128 pages — List price: $11.95 Order Online HERE Save 30% when you order the set: Regular Price: $23.90 Order the set at this link for only $15.99   From the young St. Francis de Sales's heroic efforts to bring Calvinists back to the Faith comes this succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old practice of making the Sign of the Cross, which sixteenth-century Calvinists denounced as a Popish invention and many Protestants scorn even today. Embodying the zeal of youth and the wisdom of age, this gentle jewel of Catholic apologetics traces the origins of the Sign of the Cross back to the Fathers of the Church, to the Apostles before them, and finally to our Lord Himself. Along with St. Francis's other lucid explanations of our Catholic Faith and his undaunted love even for those who hated him, this modest book helped restore to their native Catholic faith tens of thousands of heretics who not long before were intent on killing him.As they did for the Calvinists in St. Francis’s day, so in our day these pages will bring you a better understanding and a renewed love the Sign of the Cross, that brief and lively exterior prayer by which, from time immemorial, God has been invoked by serious Christians before all of their endeavors. Among the other things you’ll learn here: Why now is always the right time to make the Sign of the Cross   Why God chooses to attach power to the Sign of the Cross   Why it is made on the forehead   How to convince skeptics to value and pray with it   Two uses of the Sign of the Cross: do you know both of them?   How the Sign of the Cross is the antidote to the Mark of the Devil   Errors in the claims of those who oppose this practice   The theological significance of the motions, vertical and horizontal   Two reasons it has particular power against the Enemy   Why you should make the Sign of the Cross publicly and often Outside the Creed itself, there are few topics to which the Fathers testify as universally and unanimously as the pious practice of making, frequently and well, the Sign of the Cross. With the help of these holy pages, the saints’ love for it will enkindle yours. Soon you’ll be saying with St. Jerome, “With every work, with all of my comings and goings, may my hand make the Sign of the Cross!” Order the set at this link for only $15.99 Order online above, or call 1-800-888-9344 www.SophiaInstitute.com Save up to 40% when you join Sophia's