Saturday, August 4, 2018

Food for our salvation (St. Francis de Sales)


 Out of death, which devours everything, has come the food for our salvation, and out of death, strong above all things, has issued the sweet honey of our love. 

--St. Francis de Sales, 
Treatise on the Love of God, 
Book 12, Chapter 13 

Image source:  Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) & friends, Gesù Cristo e il buon ladrone (ca. 1563), photo courtesy of Fr. Pat, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=962275917287936&set=pcb.961954790653382&type=3&theater


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