by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 25, 2024 | Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales
Consecrate Those Difficulties to Him At our Living Jesus Chat this Sunday we will be talking about the following letter of St. Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat, please read the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales
Abandonment is Worthy of Being Practiced by the Children of God This article is taken from a chapter in Consoling Thoughts on God and Providence by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 13, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales
we want to share and reflect upon a letter written by St. Jane to St. Francis Aug 10, 9:35 AM SrSusan (Guest): Reflections:What can we do when we feel like all is lost and we’re just breaking at the seams?How can the presence of God make us tremble and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 16, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales, Uncategorized
Reflections:What can we do to help children be “great”?What is the importance of our own spiritual growth in this pursuit?What does it mean to become little? And why is it great?If one is in a position of authority, such as that of a parent or work supervisor, how...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 9, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales
Reflections:How can we miss something, even though we are so eager to see it?St. Francis tells St. Jane, “you must no longer be a woman, you must have a man’s heart.” Certainly, this does not relate to today’s gender hysteria; so...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales
Renounce All Thoughts That Are Not for God This week we read a letter to Soeur Humbert of the Visitation at Moulins, written from Annecy on 22 July 1616.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the letter, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at...