by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why do you suppose suffering and affliction are part of God’s plan? Why didn’t God redeem us in a way that didn’t require this?What does it mean to “please” the Lord? If God is sufficient and perfectly happy in Himself without us, then...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 18, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How are afflictions viewed through God’s will “unspeakably lovely and precious?” “[T]he principal effect of love is to make the lover suffer for the thing beloved.” How do we see this in married persons? In religious? What would be the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
When have you experienced God’s “sweet mercies,” as Saint Francis talks about? How can punishments be “aromatized with the Divine sweetness?” Is this masochistic? Which saints come to mind who have embraced the pain necessarily associated...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord ek we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with the book 9, chapter 1, “Of The Union Of Our Will To That Divine Will Which Is Called The Will Of Good-Pleasure.” Nothing, except...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Have you ever fallen into this temptation to ask for God’s guidance in every single daily matter (e.g., what to eat, what to wear, etc.)? What has helped you overcome this? Why do you think it is important for Saint Francis to emphasize this point? What danger...