by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 19, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
an 16, 6:28 AM SrSusan (Guest): What is prayer that makes it necessary for our lives? How can St. Francis say we can do no good without it?In talking about simple thoughts, St. Francis makes it sound like every part of our lives/days need...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 16, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Without Prayer We Could Not Come to Any Good This article is taken from a chapter in The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales: On Prayer by Saint Francis de Sales which is available from TAN Books. To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 12, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How do we balance between desiring something but not inordinately?Religious life is a “higher” calling than marriage simply because it reflects how we will be in heaven. Then why would it be wrong for a married person to hope for and long for religious...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Look Towards the Place Which We Would Like to Reach, But Always Look Straight Ahead At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, written from Cluses, 6 August 1606, taken from Selected...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 5, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
SrSusan (Guest): What do you think leads to anti-Catholic sentiment in society?There are places today where people’s lives are at risk for being Christian, but in other parts of the world, persecution comes in the form of a “white martyrdom.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 3, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
“If by Shedding Our Blood Spain Can Be Saved, Lord May it Be as Soon as Possible” ,Earlier in the week, we shared a new movie about seven nuns of the Visitation Order who were martyred during a time of intense anti-Catholic sentiment in Spain.Our email was...