by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 17, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
. How can we be sure of someone’s love for us? God is unchanging and His love is certain, but how can we not doubt the love of people who are ever changing and prone to sin and deception?2. St. Francis mentions that we are only to live...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 3, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
. Last week we learned that almost seven years after the above letter was written, St. Francis passed away. We see that he and St. Francis were very close. How can information like this help us read the advice of St. Francis with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 13, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
How can all the sufferings of Our Lord give us tranquility? Shouldn’t they give us a sense of sorrow? St. Francis also says that we should compare our sufferings to Our Lord’s sufferings and realize they are so little. Does this simply belittle the crosses...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 6, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
St. Francis asks (perhaps rhetorically) St. Jane: “what need is there to speak like this to a soul that knows me as she knows herself?” As much as someone knows us, why can we never exhaust the knowledge of ourselves to each other? We usually only think of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 20, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
St. Francis acknowledges that his reader is determined to live for God. However, he notes that, “your great natural activity harasses you with many restless impulses.” How can we calm those restless impulses within...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 13, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Saint Francis makes it very clear that he is this gentleman’s father, even referring to him as his “real son.” How do priests and bishops become our fathers in an even more real way than biological fathers?2. Reflect on the fact that earthly family...