by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 23, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There is a war raging inside us between divine love and self-love. How do we allow divine love to win out in our lives? Why do you think we are so prone to self-love? How can we surrender more of our will and passions to God’s will and good pleasure? Why with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 17, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What do you make of the description of the fruit of the Spirit being love with multiple facets of expression in the other virtues? Does that make sense to you?2. What do you think is the distinction between the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit?3. Saint Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What do you make of the distinctions of the types of fear? Is there something that was not clear? Was there something that stood out to you? 2. Can there be desire without fear? More specifically, can there be a desire of heaven without fear? 3. How can we use our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 2, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What do you make of Saint Francis saying that in this life charity will never be perfected to the point that we will be without fear? Should this make us despair? Does this hinder motivation for growing in charity? Why is servile fear necessary, according to Saint...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 11, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
Do you find St Francis analogy of going on a trip to Paris via Lyons helpful in understanding this reflection? Why or why not? Does his description above about the person whose “whole will in this action comes to terminate and be absorbed in the love of God,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 4, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What kind of world would we live in if public figures and political leaders took a other-first approach, instead of seeking fame and recognition? Hundreds of years before Christ, Plato envisioned what he called a “philosopher king,” a leader who cared more...