Guest1.: Sister, are you there?
Mar 18 2012, 7:21 PM
Sister : Yes Hi! What an insightful week I had
Guest 1: Please tell me all about it, I’d love to hear!
Sister : If the dissertation is true, St Francis de Sales deliberately chose interior rather than exterior austerities to counteract the Religious Wars in France and the violence people did to themselves as penitence and to counteract the massacres of people with differing beliefs
Guest 1: So he chose interior penances rather than the flagellationtype punishments I keep hearing about?
Sister : Exactly But it wasn’t even necessarily penances but LOVE : Love of neighbor to the nth degree
Guest 1: How did he do that? What kind of interior penance/sacrifice do you make
Mar 18 2012, 7:24 PM
Guest 1.: Oh, like St Therese’s Little Way?
Mar 18 2012, 7:25 PM
Sister : Mortification of the will and constant adherance to the spiritual directory which guides all inner movements
Mar 18 2012, 7:25 PM
Sister : Yes- guess who influenced St Therese
Guest 1.: St Francis!
Sister : Yes
Mar 18 2012, 7:25 PM
Sister : After reading that new book on her mother it was ever more clear to me
Guest416 (guest): hi – is this just for those discerning vocation
Mar 18 2012, 7:58 PM
Sister : We welcome everyone
Mar 18 2012, 7:59 PM
Guest416 (guest): oh ok
Guest416 (guest): I love the gentleness of DeSales..he always reminds me to go slow…a saint isn’t made in 3 days
Mar 18 2012, 8:04 PM
Guest 1.: Oh, thank you…I’ve struggled a bit with expecting myself to be “there” already
Mar 18 2012, 8:04 PM
Sister : Yes, he kind of joked about people who wanted instant sanctity!
Guest416 (guest): the funny part is i do belong to Guard of Honor and i read all of DeSales’ works
Mar 18 2012, 8:21 PM
Sister : Did you know the Guard of Honor is being revived in the US?
Sister : They just consecrated a national director
Guest416 (guest): i just joined a few months ago – Tyringham
Sister : In the Guard one devotes an hour even as one does other things to give glory to the wounded heart of Jesus
Sister : I think they are working on the new manual
Mar 18 2012, 8:25 PM
Guest 1.: Is the devotion before the Tabernacle?
Sister : In spirit
Guest416 (guest): it’s amazing how so many people secretly are walking around with the Sacred Heart in their heart
Guest416 (guest): they ask that you pick an hour during the day and make a conscious thought of standing at the cross to be with Him
Sister : And it is the same hour everyday
Mar 18 2012, 8:31 PM
Sister : The theology of it is very rich
Guest416 (guest): I think the Divine Mercy is so beautiful – the other part of His Sacred Heart
Sister One coin- 2 sides
Guest416 (guest): yes, the hr is the reparation Sister
Guest416 (guest): I think as we go deeper, it gets wider – everything seems to get pulled into His Heart: I think as we go deeper, it gets wider – everything seems to get pulled into His Heart
Mar 18 2012, 8:37 PM
Guest 1.: That is a comforting thought
Mar 18 2012, 8:37 PM
Sister : That is expressed beautifully.
Guest416 (guest): all our intentions, reparations, etc. seems to just get pulled in and then all seems well
Mar 18 2012, 8:38 PM
Sister : And it is a mystical reality