The Accommodating nature in St. Francis de Sales

  Corrigan Francois

(The Spirituality of St. Francis de Sales: A Way of Life.  A Journey available to all)

Francis was accommodating because of his realism and conviction, a conviction rooted in his faith.  He knew through human experience and he firmly believed, that each person is unrepeatedly unique.

(Read further in Corrigan Francois, The Spirituality of St. Francis de Sales: A Way of Life, Translated by Joseph D. Bowler OSFS and Lewis S. Fiorelli OSFS, Bangalore, India: SFS Publications, 1992)

  "I am as human as anyone could possibly be"

(Letters of Spiritual Direction, Theme I)

Salesian spirituality, historically situated as it is in French Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the turn of the seventeenth century, carries within itself a view of the human-divine drama that is consonant with the theological and devotional atmosphere of that period and place.

(Read further in Letters of Spiritual Direction, Theme I)

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