by Sister Susan Marie | May 5, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why is St. Francis de Sales so adamant about not making recourse to the law in life matters? He said that lawsuits were OK, but “whoever wants to be perfect” will not do so. Is this a double standard? Is there a comparison here between marriage and consecrated...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 2, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
If You Are Striving for Perfection, Give Away Your Cloak as Well At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written from Francis de Sales to Madame des Gouffiers, written from Annecy on May 1621, taken from Selected Letters of St....
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:If we do successful things or laudable things, we could be praised for them, but how do we avoid doing those things for the sake of being praised? Or how do we not allow ourselves to be consumed by the praise we do end up receiving?How is it that imperfect...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 25, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Do Not Let Your Mind Get Tangled Up in Cobwebs At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written from St. Francis de Sales to Barbe-Marie Le Blanc de Mions, wife of the president of the parliament of the Dauphine at Grenoble, written...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 21, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
pr 18, 1:28 AM VisSR (Guest): Why do we so often treat prayer as if it is getting in the way of our other activities/duties? How can we embrace it more fully?Discuss the paradox that we are supposed to grow in holiness without being preoccupied about...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 18, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Like a Good Father Who Holds His Child by the Hand, He Will Conform His Steps to Yours At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about the fragments from certain letters of St. Francis copied by St. Jane de Chantal in her notebook (between 1605 and...