Live Today Well:

SFS' Simple Approach to Holiness

SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS / 2015

Living the Christian life requires a strategy. Most of us won't get to heaven through heroic feats of sanctity, but by learning to live a devout life through our everyday activities.

That's why St. Francis de Sales has developed for you a spiritual plan of action — a plan to help you acquire holiness despite the many responsibilities and mundane realities that take up all your time and effort.

Fr. Dailey—an Oblate of St Francis de Sales —- gently guides you through St Francis's spiritual plan, showing how you can balance time devoted to God with the time needed to complete your many tasks. You'll also 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. From making a spiritual retreat during the day to fending off the many temptations you face, you’ll commune more with God throughout your day when you Live Today Well

By following St Francis's plan 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.

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This is a life-changing book for anyone who thought they were too busy to grow in holiness.” - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

“In an age of self-help gurus and productivity pundits who promise to help us through quick fixes, there is finally a new resource that delivers lasting and life-changing grace." LISA M. HENDEV, Founder of cptholicmom.com

"To describe Live Today Well as ‘massively important,’ ‘luminous,’ and ‘life-changing’ would be an understatement.” PATRICK MADRID.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART-1 SALESIAN SPIRITUALITY

1. The Devout Life

2. St. Francis’s Spiritual Directory

PART-2 OUR DAILY ROUTINE

3. On Rising: Starting Your Day Right

4. On the Day’s Preparation: Looking to Be Holy

5. On the Direction of Intention: The Key to Spiritual Perfection

6. On Meals: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

7. On Work: and Taking Spiritual Repose

8. On Leisure: Interacting with Others

9. The Examen: Reviewing Our Daily Progress

10. On Retiring: Practicing Detachment

PART-3 SACRED MOMENTS

11. Prayer: Communing with the Divine

12. Living the "Little Virtues”

13. Confession and the Grace of Reconciliation

14. Mass and the Grace of Encounter

Conclusion: The Universal Call to Holiness

Appendix 1. The Spiritual Directory

Appendix 2. Helpful Resources for Living Well

Reverend Thomas F. Dailey, OSFS.

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