by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent, February 20, 1622, concerning our inability to comprehend eternal happiness, the ability of the soul in Heaven to use its faculties to understand clearly and to love ardently, the soul’s joy in heavenly conversations with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:Why is fasting not a virtue in and of itself?What do we need to do in order to “fast well”?Why is it important that other parts (than just our stomach) should fast?What is the importance of humility in fasting? Isn’t it simply enough to just be doing...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We Must Accompany the Fast of the Body with That of the Spirit This week we read a sermon from St. Francis de Sales for Ash Wednesday, February 9, 1622, concerning the spiritual fruits of fasting and the conditions which make fasting pleasing to God: fasting...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:What does Jesus mean when He says, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26)?Based on this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Discerning God’s Will When One’s Parents Object This week we read a story about the life of St. Francis de Sales based on Butler’s Lives of the Saints.We encounter St. Francis as a young priest, caught in the tension between the wishes of his father and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
St. Francis says that we should praise God if we lose a loved one, instead of grieving. Does this conflict with what we see when Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus (John 11:35)?How can we have hope in the grieving process if the person was far from God...