Feb 08 2009
Should We Take Pages from St. Francis De Sales?
And I mean Literally.
While on retreat this weekend, I started reading Catholic Controversy: St. Francis De Sales Defense of the Faith.and what I have read so far, I have found intriguing.
For those who do not know, St. Francis volunteered to re-evangelize the Chablais region of France that converted to mostly to Calvinism after the Protestant Revolt. In his first attempt he failed. He then resorted to writing pamphlets (tracts) which he would distributed in various ways. This was successful and within four years, almost the whole region came back to Catholicism.
The book is a collection of those pamphlets and I can see how they can directly be used today for the evangelization of non-Catholic Christians (our wayward brethren).
