St. Francis de Sales on Obedience (Part I)
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Is He Writing a Spiritual Treatise?
The letters are addressed to Philothea, was that the cousin's name? Oh no, no, no. She had Jean or Maqui or something like this. So what does that mean, Philothea when I'm reading that? A friend of God. In the feminine, right? Sure. And oftentimes, sometimes spiritual writers will put the soul in the feminine. Exactly. Kind of be receptive to God's grace in their life. Both in Latin and in French, it's already in feminine. But yeah, that's right. When he's writing and he's reading, he's writing this, this work and he's considering this person that's in front of
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