by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 5, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Friends Share and Even Love One Another’s Crosses 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 1, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean to be gentle towards ourselves?How is being vexed/angry with ourselves a form of self-love?Why should we judge our conscience with reason and not passion?How might this movement away from anger into calm composure and reasoned reflection be a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 28, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We Should Never Grow Irritable with Ourselves The following article is taken from a chapter in An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 21, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
A Leg and Soul in Need of Mending This week we read part of a letter from St. Francis de Sales to Soeur de Bréchard, Sister at the Visitation in Annecy, written from Annecy in September 1613.For context: In the course of their sick-calls in the town, two of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What is abandonment?How do we set aside our own desires in order to surrender always to God’s will?When we surrender, we surrender to our Heavenly Father. How can we allow this to comfort us and assure us that we are in good hands, even if it is a course of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 10, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why do you think Our Lord chose to make Our Lady a pivotal part of our faith? Doesn’t it risk detracting from Christ as the focal point?Discuss St. Francis’s remarks that females should not be travelling excessively. He mentions there was a time and place for Paula...