{"product_id":"introduction-to-the-devout-life","title":"Introduction to the Devout Life: A Thirty-Day Salesian Retreat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Church's most beloved guide to holiness in ordinary life, arranged as a thirty-day retreat.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=ml4Llzc8pDodJ79bc6YZoro0lFmA3UlWEJQUb5f2OU7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=gqup0HqjUkSN2JddM4tuJuM2kmgxbDLk0iuOj7Bu0Kf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is an error, nay rather a heresy,\" wrote Saint François de Sales, \"to seek to banish the devout life from the regiment of soldiers, the shop of the mechanic, the court of princes, the household of married folk.\" In 1609 the gentle Bishop of Geneva gathered his letters of direction to a laywoman he called Philothea, the soul in love with God, into a single book, and gave the Church her most beloved guide to holiness in the midst of ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction to the Devout Life\u003c\/em\u003e is that classic, arranged for our own day as a thirty-day retreat. It is not a public-domain reprint. Each day sets Saint Francis's own teaching within a Salesian pattern of prayer, a Preparatory Prayer, a Composition of Place, a Petition, Meditation Points drawn from the Introduction, and a Colloquy, so that the reader does not merely read de Sales but prays with him, one day at a time, from the first desire for devotion to its flowering in the love of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book gathers, too, the Universal and Salesian prayers, selected letters of spiritual direction, and de Sales's own five-part structure for those who would keep his original order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVive Jésus!\u003c\/em\u003e Live, Jesus, was the saint's own watchword. This book is an invitation to live it, thirty days at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Introduction to the Devout Life, in the Mackey translation of 1876, lightly modernized\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA thirty-day retreat: each day a Composition of Place, Petition, Meditation, and Colloquy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Universal prayers and the Salesian prayers, in Latin and French with English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected letters of spiritual direction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Francis's own five-part structure, for an alternate pacing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA free companion app, Philothea, with the same daily retreat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll doctrinal content follows the constant teaching of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint François de Sales, edited by Jessica Huber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by Henry Benedict Mackey, OSB (Rivingtons, London, 1876)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, The Devotional Series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 192 pages, printed in full color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border:0;border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:2.2em 0 1.6em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=ml4Llzc8pDodJ79bc6YZoro0lFmA3UlWEJQUb5f2OU7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=gqup0HqjUkSN2JddM4tuJuM2kmgxbDLk0iuOj7Bu0Kf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. 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