{"product_id":"live-today-well-st-francis-de-saless-simple-approach-to-holiness-9781622823017","title":"Live Today Well: St. Francis de Sales's Simple Approach to Holiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiving the Christian life requires a strategy. Most of us won't get to heaven through heroic feats of sanctity, but by learning to live the devout life through our everyday activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. Francis de Sales has developed for you a spiritual plan of action -- a plan that will help you acquire holiness despite the many responsibilities and mundane realities that take up all your time and effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, Fr. Thomas Dailey -- an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales -- gently guides you through St. Francis de Sales's spiritual plan, showing how you can balance time devoted to God with the time needed to complete your many tasks each day. You'll learn St. Francis de Sales's technique of daily prayer and grace-filled awareness that will transform your life one day at a time -- no matter how busy your lifestyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom making a spiritual retreat during the day to fending off the many temptations you face, \u003ci\u003eLive Today Well\u003c\/i\u003e will help you commune with God throughout your day. And by practicing the little virtues you learn here, you'll soon find yourself moving toward the heavenly heights as you become the saint you are called by God to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll also learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour ways to become aware of God's presence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTips for spiritual time-management.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimple methods of praying, whether in Church or not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to avoid the three dangerous tendencies that appear in conversations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to conquer your greatest temptations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one virtue which gives greatest assurance for reaching perfection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe two critical elements of any good confession.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFr. Thomas Dailey holds the John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics \u0026amp; Social Communications at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He obtained a doctoral degree in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sophia Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528184402194,"sku":"9781622823017","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0bcd11e-0967-46b8-ad51-09be991bbf06.jpg?v=1731320600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/live-today-well-st-francis-de-saless-simple-approach-to-holiness-9781622823017","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}