by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Live According to Reason and Devotion The following reflection is taken from a section in the book Roses Among Thorns: Simple Advice for Renewing Your Spiritual Journey, a book which consists of excerpts by St. Francis de Sales. It is published by Sophia Institute...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How can we learn to become less anxious?What are mortifications and how can we “practice” them?Why is it important to give our all to the Lord and yet not try to over do it? Is that a contradiction?How might we be failing to recognize the Lord in our day-to-day lives?...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 27, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Jesus Dresses as a Gardener to Show Us the Importance of Ordinary Mortifications The following reflection is taken from a section in the book Roses Among Thorns: Simple Advice for Renewing Your Spiritual Journy, published by Sophia Institute Press.To prepare for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 23, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:Do you think St. Francis is being too pushy in order to keep this young woman in the convent?How can we more easily discern what God is calling us to versus a temptation away from something?Why is it important to recognize when resentment creeps in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 20, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
You Would Only Be Leaving in Order to Live for Yourself This week we read a letter from St. Francis de Sales to Soeur de Girard, Sister at the Visitation of Grenoble, written from Annecy on 14 January 1620.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the letter,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 13, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Be Quite Little, Always This week we read a letter from St. Francis de Sales to the Baronne de Chantal, written from Annecy on 20 January 1607.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the letter, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at the...