We conclude this segment of “Discernment with DeSales”, reflecting that Saint Francis De Sales encourages us towards the most appropriate motivations for entering religious life, which include union with God, growth in virtue , and the strengthening of our will to follow Jesus.
From Conference 20
You see then clearly what should be your aim and motive if you desire to be worthy brides of Our Lord, espoused to him on Mount Calvary.
Live your whole life then and form all your actions according to this motive and God will bless you.
All your happiness depends on perseverance; I exhort you to this, my dear daughters, with my whole heart, and pray Almighty God to fill you with His grace and divine love in this world, and to make you happy partakers of His glory in the next. Adieu, my dear daughters. I bear you all in my heart.