Calming Words When There is Trouble in the Streets

How do we as Christians approach the world today with all its anxieties and cares? When there is trouble in the streets? St. Francis de Sales sheds some light on this in two letters to laymen.

Below is a letter to one man who has chosen a career “in court.” Also here is a good passage from a page of a letter to another layman.

The below pages are from the book, Selected Letters, a collection of letters by St. Francis de Sales translated by Elisabeth Stopp and published by Harper & Brothers, New York, in 1960.