#St. Frances de Sales

[thehopefulquotes]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[thoughtkick]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[quotefeeling]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[perfectquote]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[nightlyquotes]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[perfectfeelings]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[resqectable]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[perfeqt]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[poemaseletras]

Quando se trata de ser gentil, comece com você mesmo. Não fique chateado com suas imperfeições. Ficar desapontado com o fracasso é compreensível, mas não deve se transformar em amargura ou rancor direcionado a si mesmo.

St. Frances de Sales

[mommaching]

A genuinely humble person would prefer to be described by others as worthless or good-for-nothing rather than describe themselves in such a manner. If such criticisms are directed towards them, a humble individual would accept them without contradiction or resistance, acknowledging them contentedly as their own opinion. True humility is accepting criticism or lowly remarks without defensiveness or pride.

#interiorhumility

#learntfromStFrancisdeSales

[walkswithmyfather]

“...pray continually,” —1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NIV)

“Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.” —Matthew 6:9‭-‬13 (NLT)

[thoughtkick]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[quotefeeling]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[perfectquote]

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself.

St. Frances de Sales

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (August 12)

"In Madame de Chantal I have found the perfect woman, whom Solomon had difficulty finding in Jerusalem."

— St. Francis de Sales, her spiritual director

Jane Frances de Chantal was born on 28 January 1572 in Dijon, France.

She died at the Visitation Convent Moulins on 13 December 1641.

Jane (Jeanne) was born into nobility, her father being the president of the parliament of Burgundy.

At age 20, she was married to the Baron de Chantal. Jane had four children.

She loved and served her young family deeply until the death of her husband in a hunting accident at age 28.

For seven years, she was forced to live in the house of her father in law, a trial which she was forced to bear patiently due to his ill-disposition towards her.

It was also during this time that she took a vow of perpetual chastity.

In all of her prayers, Jane asked God to send her a guide. In a vision, He showed her the spiritual director that He held in reserve for her.

During Lent, in 1604, she visited her father at Dijon, where St. Francis de Sales was preaching at the Sainte Chapelle.

She recognized in him the mysterious director who had been shown to her, and she placed herself under his guidance.

Then began the famous correspondence between the two saints, which produced volumes of letters of spiritual direction, some of which are available today.

However, most of which were destroyed by her upon the death of St. Francis.

She went to Annecy in 1610, where she believed God was calling her to found an order for women and girls who felt called to live the life of Christian perfection but not practice the severe asceticism of the religious orders of the time.

Thus, the Congregation of the Visitation was canonically established at Annecy on 6 June 1610, Trinity Sunday.

The method of spiritual perfection of the Visitation nuns was that of St. Francis, which consisted in always keeping one's will united to the Divine will, in taking — so to speak — one's soul, heart and longings into one's hands and giving them into God's keeping, and in seeking always to do what is pleasing to Him.

There were 86 convents of the Visitation nuns at the time of her death 31 years later.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal's spirituality was a strong and resilient one; she did not like to see her daughters giving way to human weaknesses and encouraged constant battle against the passions and habits, which keep one from following God's will.

Her trials were continuous and borne bravely, and yet she was exceedingly sensitive.

She endured interior crosses which, particularly during the last nine years of her life, kept her in an agony of soul, from which she was not freed until three months before her death.

Her reputation for sanctity was widespread. Queens, princes, and princesses flocked to the reception-room of the Visitation.

Wherever she went to establish foundations, the people gave her ovations.

"These people," she would say confused, "do not know me - they are mistaken."

Her body is venerated with that of St. Francis de Sales in the church of the Visitation at Annecy.

She was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV on 21 November 1751. She was canonized by Pope Clement XIII on 16 July 1767.

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