tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post4700573404836085456..comments2024-03-25T02:43:49.115-05:00Comments on Karen Edmisten: On the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, and a new findKaren Edmisten http://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-4546110753038963212009-01-27T23:27:00.000-06:002009-01-27T23:27:00.000-06:00I love St Francis de Sales - Introduction to the D...I love St Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life. Scars indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-3062531672732628432009-01-27T10:00:00.000-06:002009-01-27T10:00:00.000-06:00Thanks for your comment at Catholic Vision. Good ...Thanks for your comment at Catholic Vision. Good blogging yourself, Karen. <BR/><BR/>Thought I'd share my birthday de Sales:<BR/><BR/>When a diamond is nearby, it hinders the attraction by which iron is drawn to a magnet. It does this without taking away iron's magnetic properties, since the magnet acts as soon as the obstacle is removed. Similarly, the presence of venial sins does not actually deprive charity of its strength and power to act, yet in a certain way it weakens it and deprives it of its activity. Hence charity remains inactive, sterile and unproductive...With venial sin we concede more than is proper to a creature; we busy ourselves more than we should with things of earth, yet for all that we do not forsake the things of Heaven. (T.L.G. Book 4, Ch. 2; O. IV, p. 219)Fr. Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05341140536112894435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-49345398955270770432009-01-25T09:31:00.000-06:002009-01-25T09:31:00.000-06:00Thanks, Jenn, for the recommendation -- no, I have...Thanks, Jenn, for the recommendation -- no, I haven't read that, but should take a look at it. I love de Sales.Karen Edmisten https://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-72352696079193428232009-01-24T12:30:00.000-06:002009-01-24T12:30:00.000-06:00Oh, thanks for that link. Have you read "How To Pr...Oh, thanks for that link. Have you read "How To Profit from Your Faults" by Joseph Tissot (Scepter)? It's a reprint, but fabulous, mostly drawn from the writings of St. Francis de Sales. It really spoke to me, and gave me cravings for more de Sales!Jennifer Gregory Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03677077951743177153noreply@blogger.com