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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 7, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales
Purification and General Confession Hi Subscriber,This article is taken from a chapter in An Introduction to the Devout Life 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 4, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
If confession is for the remission of sin, why is it not enough to just go through the motions? Why do we need to be detached from sin?Does this mean a person’s confession is invalid if they do not have true sorrow for their sins?Does this mean I can just have a...