Catholic Classics Day 6: Allow Christ into Your Life (Introduction to the Devout Life)
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Make A Written Profession To Serve God
- Do make a written profession dedicating your whole life to God as part of a decisive turn toward the devout life.
- St. Francis de Sales provides a full formulary to renounce the devil, world, and flesh and consecrate spirit, soul, heart, and body before God and the Church.
Confession Is A Heavenly Sealing Of Conversion
- Insight that sacramental absolution completes the interior profession by sealing it in heaven as the priest absolves on earth.
- The host of blessed rejoice and give a spiritual kiss of peace to the renewed heart, linking confession to communal, heavenly affirmation.
Light Of Conscience Reveals Root Attractions
- Insight that increasing inward light reveals not only sins but also affections and inclinations toward venial sins.
- These are distinct: venial acts may persist, but you can remove the affectionate attraction to them through purification.