Is your life harried and hassled? Is it difficult to find time to pray and to reflect on your calling as a Christian? Then this book is for you. In just five minutes a day, you can read a portion of a letter or sermon by Saint Francis de Sales, reflect on how he lived what he taught in the concrete circumstances of his own life, and have a brief saying to take with you for the rest-of the day.

Saint Francis de Sales lived some four hundred years ago, and yet his message is still relevant for our world today. His gentle manner to-ward everyone he met and his generous service of God and the Church can be an inspiration and an example for twentieth century Christians of every walk of life.

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”

Saint Francis de Sales