by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the distinction between a sinner who doing works while dead in sin compared to the works of someone made dead by sin?This reflection is a sobering reminder that no matter how many good works we have, we can easily render all of that empty through a single...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 25, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis emphasizes often the divide between a non-Christian attempting virtue in vain compared with the Christian who has grace. What different then is there between a Christian attempting virtue without charity and a pagan doing likewise? How can we ensure that...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 14, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What might be the distinction between taking one’s life as described above and taking one’s life through depression and despair?2. How can the present reflection shed light on the abortion industry and the motives and reasons with which people approach...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 7, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why do we need charity to perfect the virtues? What would virtues without charity look like? What is charity without the virtues? In other words, what does charity look like without virtue? Or, can charity exist without virtue? St. Francis says that besides charity,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 23, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
As beautiful as this reflection is, how does it make a difference in someone’s pursuit of holiness? Is all of this just an abstract theological explanation of what happens in someone’s growth in virtue? How can we begin growing in virtue in light of this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis seems to imply that there is nothing good that can come from humans. Is this so? Now consider that first question in light of humans who have been regenerated by baptism. Can nothing good come from humanity still? If we are “utterly useless”...