Sermons of St. Francis de Sales On Our Lady by St. Francis de Sales

Author:St. Francis de Sales [de Sales, St. Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2015-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1.Preventing grace: the grace that goes before the free consent of the will. It moves the will spontaneously, inclining it to God.

2.Cf. Sermon for July 2, 1618, p. 54-55.

3.1 Kgs. 13:1, Douay: "Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign. . . ." Douay footnote: "of one year—that is, he was good and like an innocent child."

4.Cf. above, p. 87.

5.Keep in mind that St. Francis' congregation here is a community of nuns.

6.Cf. Sermon for July 2, 1618, p. 53-55.

7.The French reads "sa bien cherie," an expression of endearment difficult to render into English.

8.St. Francis is strong on this point. Humility is the foot-rest of God's mercy toward us as well as the foundation for genuine and lasting growth in holiness.

9.Cf. above, p. 87.

10.Cf. vol. 1 of this series, The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Prayer, p. 5 .

11.This language, though similar in tone to Luther's imputation language, underlines the mediatorial role of Christ, as the Biblical references, Ps. 84:10 and Rom. 8:29, make clear.

12.The pun is also present in the original French. Cf. Conferences, XIX, p. 382.

13.Although the structure is a bit awkward here, St. Francis de Sales is giving expression to this truth: Within the Trinity, the Father begets the Son and together they spirate the Holy Spirit. In the economy of salvation, the opposite movement takes place. We go to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit leading us to Jesus who, in turn, is the way to the Father.

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