SALESIAN LITERATURE

The Art of Utilizing Our Faults,

According to SFS


By Joseph Tissot (Fourth Superior General of the MSFS)


Translated from the French, By Ivo Carneiro MSFS.


ISBN: 81-85376-51-4


The Art Of Utilizing Our Faults, brings home to man. the need to open himself to a new world of experience and to discover a new dimension to his human personality in a new relationship with God. who is a Father, full of love and tenderness towards his often wayward children.

Steeped as he is in the teaching of Saint Francis de Sales, the author of this lovely book tells us that “the possibility to draw good out of our sinful actions does not come from the sins themselves, but only from God's mercy and the grace which Jesus Christ gives to the oppressed, the anxious, the discouraged and the weary.” Jesus Christ, he tells us, “knows how to utilize our faults in order to show us his goodness and to lead us to salvation".

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword to the sixth edition

PART ONE

Chapter I, We should not be surprised at finding ourselves committing faults

Chapter II, We should not be troubled at finding ourselves committing faults

Chapter III, We should not be discouraged at finding ourselves committing faults

PART TWO

Chapter I, Utilizing our faults to humble ourselves through the awareness of our misery

Chapter II, Utilizing our faults to love our abjection

Chapter III, Utilizing our faults to grow in trust and confidence

Chapter IV, Continuation of the previous chapter

Chapter V, Utilizing our faults to grow in perseverance

Chapter VI, Utilizing our faults to become more fervent

Chapter VII, Utilizing our faults to practise satisfaction

Chapter VIII, Utilizing our faults to practise a great devotion to Our Lady