JANUARY 24 SAN FRANCESCO DI SALES

Glorious St. Francis de Sales,
your name brings the sweetness of the most afflicted heart;

your works ooze the most chosen honey of piety;

your life was a continuous holocaust of perfect love,

full of true taste for spiritual things

and generous abandonment to the loving divine will.
Teach me the inner humility, the sweetness of the face and the imitation of all the virtues that you have been able to copy from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Amen.

O true prodigy of holiness, glorious Saint Francis, who have been able to combine the simplicity of the dove with the prudence of the snake so well, the conversation of the world with the recollection of the cloister and the austerity of the desert and full of all the gifts of the Holy Spirit you have opened to devotees a new, easy and delicious way to reach perfection with certainty, obtain from the Lord the grace to always follow your teachings, because living like you as a burning lamp can obtain the eternal joy that you enjoy blessed with the Angels and Saints . Amen.