Video San Francesco di Sales n° 4 – OneDrive (sharepoint.com)
Fr. Michele Molinar, Provincial Vicar and Delegate for Formation of the Piedmont and Aosta Valley Special Circumscription (ICP), who is accompanying the viewers in this series dedicated to St. Francis de Sales, quotes André Ravier, one of the most attentive biographers of Francis, who in a few lines offers an admirable synthesis of St. Francis as a guide of souls: “During our work we were struck by a fundamental and essential law of Francis de Sales in his correspondence. There is no spiritual direction for him, unless there is friendship, meaning exchange, communication, mutual influence. For sure he never renounced the authority he enjoyed as bishop, confessor and counsellor. He was always very humble, very human and I would even dare say very tender with regard to this authority. And who knows but God alone is the one acting in the heart of the man and the woman and it is only the Spirit who gives efficacy to the pastor’s words. He sets out, and taking one step after another he seeks, questions, suffers, hopes and prays and feels fully at ease only when he forms one heart and one soul and is one in spirit with his correspondent.”