Sunday chat June 6

Hi Subscriber, This week we read a letter from St. Francis de Sales to Mademoiselle Lhuillier de Frouville in Annecy on 9 August 1620. She entered religious life on the feast of the Visitation, 2 July 1620. It is from the book Selected Letters of St. Francis de...

Sunday chat May 16

Saint Francis writes that having to attend to many things is a great means of acquiring virtue. Discuss this in light of the story of Martha and Mary with Jesus. What do you think of Saint Francis saying that “the fact that one has to attend to a great many...

Sunday chat May 9

What’s up with this tension between Spirit and flesh? If our physical makeup is essential to our being, why it does it seem so often to be relegated to something negative? Related, is there a distinction between “flesh” and simply our physical...