by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 7, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 31, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What does it mean when St. Francis says, “Why have I not done more to keep our Father’s image faithfully mirrored in my heart?”Why do you think St. Francis needed to be convinced to have his portrait painted (opposed to him just simply agreeing to...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 24, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We often focus on the gifts that God gives, but how often do we focus on our need to learn to receive those gifts? Why is this essential to the devout life?Why do we need grace from God in order to long and yearn for him? What does this say about the reality of free...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 17, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 10, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 3, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
How do we serve God with gentleness? What might this look like? In praying, “Father, may it be done not as I will, but as you will” how do we recognize what is the will of the Father? Consider the paragraph about Mary Magdalene. What does it mean for God...