by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 13, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Doing That Which is Most Agreeable to God We are begin our reflections this week, pulling from a new book by St. Francis de Sales called “Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety.” Let us join together and return to this most basic and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 9, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why is it important for representatives/ministers of the Church to be “sent,” to have a connection to authority in the Church?Why is the Bible insufficient for laying down the mission of the Church?Does St. Francis’s concerns here contradict Our Lord when he said:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Are Protestant Ministers True Ambassadors of Christ? During the height of the Protestant Reformation, Saint Francis de Sales was embroiled in the many controversies surrounding its dissemination. We will be reflecting upon articles he wrote defending Catholicism. Here...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 2, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Feb 27, 6:23 AM SrSusan (Guest): What does it mean that God gives us to someone? Isn’t this only something married people should say?Why do you think Saint Francis was so struck by his encounter with Saint Jane, such that he believed God gave her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Commend Me To Your Guardian Angel ,At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about some very brief letters from Saint Francis de Sales. One was a brief note after his first encounter with Saint Jane de Chantal, and the other is the surviving portion...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean to yield to the will of God completely? How can we know this?Why is it that God might lead us into darkness, helplessness, and so forth?Saint Francis says that God will not lead us into temptation. Why then in the Our Father do we ask God to not lead...