by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 21, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales, Events
Connect your heart Young Cathos 74 (jeunescathos74.fr) A time apart to help you make the right choices in this period when you decide the main orientations of your life. To move forward freely you need to know the reality: Who is really God, what is the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 7, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales
Purification and General Confession Hi Subscriber,This article is taken from a chapter in An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 18, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
We Must Endure the Pain While God Tears Away the Old Man ,This article is taken from a chapter in Consoling Thoughts on Trials of An Interior Life 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 | Mar 12, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales
:Why did God ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? And was it duplicitous knowing he would be stopped in the act?We often credit Abraham with hope and faith, but Isaac is often not emphasized. He was old enough to physically overtake the 100-plus-year-old...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales
What does it mean that we should expect the growth of weeds in our garden?St. Francis warns against self-love, but is the pursuit of perfection itself a form of self-love?How can we grow in the virtue of patience?If our imperfections accompany us to the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 8, 2023 | Discernment with DeSales, Uncategorized
What is quietism, and what makes it a heresy? (Definition on Catholic.com) What does it deny?What is pacificism, according to St. Francis? And how is it not simply nihilism or a negative acceptance of just whatever comes our way?What is...