By Fr. Baviri Suresh Babu MSFS

If you are longing for true and lasting happiness, then "GROWING IN HOLINESS" is a book meant for you. It is an excellent resource that allows prayerful readers to resonate with St. Francis de Sales in their own circumstances of life. These pages are the fruit of his long years of research, teaching, preaching, and guiding of priests, religious, seminarians, and lay people. In a lucid and simple style Father Bavari Suresh Babu, MSFS impresses on the reader that no moment is trivial for one who has fallen in love with God. Every moment, every happening is the grace of the "now" in the surge and growth in love. Focusing on the main characteristics of the spirituality of St Francis de Sales, Fr Suresh Babu dwells at length on the stage of purification, the power of prayer and divine communication and communion, and the magic of disinterested love. The quiet percolation of the distilled spirit of gentleness, humility, patience into the hidden recesses of one's being produces harmony, integration and peace. The dynamics of loving God in the ways of St Francis de Sales flows into the beauty of joy-filled loving of humans. Fr Suresh Babu through the gentle and cajoling spirituality of St Francis de Sales reveals ordinariness of life transformed into an extraordinary adventure of holiness. You cannot resist the appeal of the Spirituality of St Francis de Sales too long after reading this Book.

SFS Publications, Bengaluru (2019)

ISBN : 978-81-85812-63-2