by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 9, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Spiritual Growth, Like the Palm Tree, Takes Many Years At our Living Jesus Chatroom on Sunday we will be talking about the following article, taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 3, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
Vanity is an easy vice to warn against, but what about ambition? That’s commonly considered positive in our day and age. Why does St. Francis see it as negative?What makes vanity a defect of courage?What is vanity, precisely? Is it just about a concern for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How Vanity and Ambition Can Sink Our Ship from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at the end.Click for Living Jesus Chatroom Pieter Bruegel the Elder...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 24, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
A Type of Desire That Makes the Soul Better The following article is taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at the end.Click for Living Jesus...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 19, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
ReflectionselcWhy is bitterness and dryness more fruitful than sweetness and consolation? And does this mean heaven is not of benefit to us? St. Francis says that “it is self-esteem which makes us impatient at seeing ourselves vile and abject.” Is there a good kind of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 16, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
After This Wintertime of Coldness, a Blissful Summer Will Come The following article is taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at the end.Click...