by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 16, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Without Prayer We Could Not Come to Any Good This article is taken from a chapter in The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales: On Prayer by Saint Francis de Sales which is available from TAN Books. To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 12, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How do we balance between desiring something but not inordinately?Religious life is a “higher” calling than marriage simply because it reflects how we will be in heaven. Then why would it be wrong for a married person to hope for and long for religious...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Look Towards the Place Which We Would Like to Reach, But Always Look Straight Ahead At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, written from Cluses, 6 August 1606, taken from Selected...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 5, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
SrSusan (Guest): What do you think leads to anti-Catholic sentiment in society?There are places today where people’s lives are at risk for being Christian, but in other parts of the world, persecution comes in the form of a “white martyrdom.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 3, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
“If by Shedding Our Blood Spain Can Be Saved, Lord May it Be as Soon as Possible” ,Earlier in the week, we shared a new movie about seven nuns of the Visitation Order who were martyred during a time of intense anti-Catholic sentiment in Spain.Our email was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 30, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Photos & videos, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
New Video Reveals Mystery of the Seven Spanish Martyrs of the Visitation One hundred years ago, anti-Catholic sentiment in Spain was high, and nearly 8,000 martyrs suffered for their faith. Among them were seven nuns of the Visitation Order from Madrid, now known as...