Chat Sunday Jan 7

Fasting, abstinence, and self-denial allow us to delay the pleasure of the goods God has given in this life. How can having more control over our desires for them be a co-redemptive remedy against the effects of the Fall?Does the grace we have as...

Newsletter for Chat Jan 7

Before the Incarnation, Men Lived Like Brute Beasts The following article is taken from a chapter in The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales: For Advent and Christmas by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read...

Sunday Chat Dec31

  Regarding St. Jane de Chantal’s choice of St. Francis de Sales as a director, St. Francis mentions that the due diligence they took in deliberating about this decision are together as “infallible signs” of acting according to God’s...

Sunday chat Dec 17

Reflections:St. Francis mentions how the times of bitterness are the times to prove our true love for the Lord. If this is so, how are we able to love God perfectly in heaven where there is only ever sweetness?Do you think our current go-go-go culture...