by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 4, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Everyone should love the perfection of the evangelical counsels This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 9, “A Continuation Of The Preceding Discourse. How Every One, While Bound To Love, Is Not...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 1, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis now tells us that contempt for the counsels is a grave sin. Let’s talk about the fine line of distinction between what he has been saying about it being not a sin to not follow the counsels, but today we read that it is a sin to show contempt. What...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Earth of Our Heart Is Commanded to Bring Forth the Plants of Virtue This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 8, “That The Contempt Of The Evangelical Counsels Is A Great Sin.” You can also...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The idea here that God calls us to go beyond the commandments can be seen in His insistence that “whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 20, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Name of Honor Amongst Christians Shall Be No Other Than God’s Will in Them This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 7, “That The Love Of God’s Will Signified In The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the difference between commands and counsels? Why doesn’t God simply make everything a command? What significance is there in having counsels? In our modern age Christianity is often caricatured as some type of fire insurance religion where mere belief...