by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 7, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 4, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 28, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Deliberation, Not Excitement, in an Important Choice At our Living Jesus Chat this Sunday we will be talking about the following article, taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat, please read the article, which is reproduced below,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 23, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Musician’s Devotion to the Sacred Heart Began During Covid Lockdown ,Since Sunday is Christmas Eve, we are going to skip this week’s chat.However, we share with you the recent TV coverage of a new music CD featuring devotion to the Sacred Heart.Michael...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 17, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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...