by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:How are thoughts not sins, if they are our thoughts?When do our thoughts become sins?Where do our thoughts come from, especially the ones we don’t want?How can we use this battlefield of the mind as an opportunity to grow closer to God and in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales
Renounce All Thoughts That Are Not for God This week we read a letter to Soeur Humbert of the Visitation at Moulins, written from Annecy on 22 July 1616.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the letter, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
How does the gift of understanding help us submit to God’s will?How does our will become transformed as a result?What is the difference between wisdom, knowledge, and understanding?What does it mean that “our love must act in some...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Give Us Understanding To See God’s Goodness This week we will revisit St. Francis’ letters. Here we read a letter to Mere de Chantal at Paris, written from Annecy on 15 June 1620.For context, it will help to know that it was customary in the Visitation to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What exactly is humility?How can someone as great as St. John the Baptist have such amounts of humility? Can one truly be great without humility?What possibly was it about John the Baptist that made people ponder whether he was the Messiah/Christ or not?How...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 14, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Armed on All Sides with Humility This article is taken from a chapter in The St. Francis de Sales Signature Set by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced...