by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 26, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Merry Christmas! A Savior is Born! Due to Christmas, we will not be having our usual article and subsequent Sunday chat. Rather, please ponder excerpts below from a homily of St. Francis de Sales.We wish you a blessed and joyful Christmas! Some words of St. Francis de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 22, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What is eternity? Is there no passage of time in heaven? Are we just frozen still?How can we make good use of our time here on earth?How can we not be too scrupulous about using our time on earth?Reflect on this: God’s plan for redemption was to come to this earth as...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 19, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
When I Think How I Have Used God’s Time, I Fear That He May Not Want to Give Me His Eternity ,At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Francis de Sales to “a Lady”, written from Annecy on 29 December...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 15, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why can splendors and “pomp and circumstance” feel so rewarding to some, and yet so empty and vain to others?Is longing for eternity a risk of causing us to not be present enough in this world?If we are made for eternity, why do we have to pass through this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 12, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Feet Should Be Well Shod but Hearts Stripped of Worldly Affection At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Francis de Sales to “a Lady”, written from Lyons on 19 December 1622, taken from Selected Letters of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 8, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why is the Eucharist the center of the Christian religion? And does this detract from the person of the Holy Spirit?Why is prayer united to the Eucharist more powerful? Does this also mean prayer outside of Mass is ineffectual?St. Francis says that if you cannot make...