extracts from The Catholic Controversy (TAN)  

► origin of the book & author's introduction

► links to selections from the text

 Introduction to the Devout Life

 
►overview of the book

► complete English text (CCEL)

►The Mystical Exposition on
    the Canticle of Canticles

The Spiritual Conferences

► Ruhl translation (Devos reconstructed text)

► Mackey translation (SFS library)

Carniero translation
► on "The Sacraments"
► on "Simplicity"

► The Spiritual Directory

 extracts from The Spiritual Exercises


► "Spiritual Repose"
► "Rules for Conversations"
► "Frequent Communion"

Treatise on the Love of God

► complete English text (CCEL)

LETTERS

• ► Advice to Confessors  
• ► Letters to Persons in Religion (SFS Library)
• ► Letters to Persons in the World (SFS Library)
• ► On the Preacher and Preaching (excerpts)
• ► selected letters to Madame de la Fléchère
• ► unpublished letters to Antoine Favre
• ► Thy Will Be Done (excerpts)

► Sermons on the Eucharist (booklet)

►  St. Francis de Sales as Preacher 
        (a study by Dom Mackey)

► purchase a copy of the book

► Sermons on Prayer (excerpt)

selected sermons

• ► "Easter Virtues"   
• ► "On the First Verse of the Canticle of Canticles"
• ► "For Good Friday, 1620"
• ► "For Pentecost"
• ► "Models on the Temple Steps" (Purification) 
• ► "On the Transfiguration"

► Sermons for Lent, 1622 (excerpt)

OTHER WRITINGS

• ► Commentary on the Our Father
• ► Constitutions of the Florimontaine Academy
• ► on the Exercise of Virtue
• ► an Exhortation to Clerics
• ► an Exhortation of the Provost to His Chapter
• ► short Meditation on the Creed 
• ► Prayer for an Expectant Mother 
• ► short Treatise on Holy Communion
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• ► the Month of Mary
• ► Mystical Flora
• ► Practical Piety
• ► the Secret of Sanctity