
Francis explicitly writes for people, especially women, who live and work and carry out many duties in the world and yet long for greater devotion. Too, the advice was so much more practical than what you find in a lot of spiritual works: St. The book charmed me almost immediately with its familiar, modern voice (at least in Father Michael Day's translation).

Over the last eight months, I've been blogging my way through St. Francis de Sales's Introduction to the Devout Life.
