by Editor | Dec 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God starting now into Book 9, “Of The Love Of Submission, Whereby Our Will Is United To God’s Good-Pleasure” with chapter 4, “Of The Union Of Our Will To The Good-Pleasure...
by Editor | Dec 3, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How do you suppose one can “cherish, love, and embrace” afflictions “for the sake of the Divine good-pleasure, whence they proceed”? We have had this in discussion before, but are we to assume God is some kind of masochist with all this...
by Editor | Nov 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Receive Sweetly all Difficulties, by Reason of the Divine Will This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God starting now into Book 9, “Of The Love Of Submission, Whereby Our Will Is United To God’s...
by Editor | Nov 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There is much to consider here! Is Saint Francis telling us that a true sign of discipleship is the degree of one’s suffering and tribulation? Believers and non-believers alike go through any degree of suffering and tribulation. What makes the suffering of a...
by Editor | Nov 22, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Tribulations In the Will of God This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God starting now into Book 9, “Of The Love Of Submission, Whereby Our Will Is United To God’s Good-Pleasure” with chapter 2, “That...
by Editor | Nov 19, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
How can we align our wills with God’s will of good-pleasure. Saint Francis says that God works in our lives with mercy and justice and that they are “one same most singular goodness and divinity.” If they are the same, why do we speak of the two as...