by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Commend Me To Your Guardian Angel ,At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about some very brief letters from Saint Francis de Sales. One was a brief note after his first encounter with Saint Jane de Chantal, and the other is the surviving portion...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean to yield to the will of God completely? How can we know this?Why is it that God might lead us into darkness, helplessness, and so forth?Saint Francis says that God will not lead us into temptation. Why then in the Our Father do we ask God to not lead...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Your Temptations Come From the Devil and From Hell At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about part of a letter written by Saint Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, written from Annecy, February 18, 1605.To prepare for our chat, please read...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 16, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What is happenstance or serendipity? Are these just life’s happy little moments, or is there an element of “divine coincidence” (providence)?How can we strike the balance of being friends or friendly with someone in a place of stature, power, or fame? Should we just...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
It’s OK to Seek Good Spiritual Guides At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Saint Francis de Sales to Madame Angelique Arnauld, Abbess of Port-Royal at Maubuisson, written from Paris, May 25, 1619.To prepare for...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What is the gift of understanding? How is it different from the gifts of counsel, knowledge, and wisdom?How can the gift of understanding help us submit to the will of God?If there are certain gifts we receive from the Holy Spirit, why do we sometimes seem to not have...