by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
The beginning of this excerpt gives advice to share time between father and father-in-law. St. Francis seems to equate them on the level of family, but today we often see blood family as taking precedent over family that is created through...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Blessed Father Jean François Mache, Polish honor guard In November 2021, the Honor Guard was enriched with a new blessed. Father Jean François Macha, member of the Guard of Honor, was beatified in the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice. There solemn mass was...
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 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Where do desire come from? Do we have control over them?How do we discern between whether we have good versus bad desires?In another letter St. Francis de Sales says (quoting St. Bernard) that the hell is full of good intentions. How could the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 12, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
Reflections:How is a well-rooted tree a good symbol for the devout life and for a life of faith?What about when a tree goes through Fall and Spring, what does this tell us about our faith journey?When St. Francis says, “never cease longing for some new...