by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 14, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What might be the distinction between taking one’s life as described above and taking one’s life through depression and despair?2. How can the present reflection shed light on the abortion industry and the motives and reasons with which people approach...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 11, 2019 | St. Francis de Sales
St. John the XX111 had a deep admiration of Visitation’s Founder, St. Francis de Sales. From an interview conducted in 2014, with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez and Randall S. Rosenberg, a theology professor at Saint Louis University, we learn:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 7, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why do we need charity to perfect the virtues? What would virtues without charity look like? What is charity without the virtues? In other words, what does charity look like without virtue? Or, can charity exist without virtue? St. Francis says that besides charity,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis seems to imply that there is nothing good that can come from humans. Is this so? Now consider that first question in light of humans who have been regenerated by baptism. Can nothing good come from humanity still? If we are “utterly useless”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Uncategorized
Lift High the Cross This week’s reflection is written byMr. Joseph McDaniel, OSFS Just over a week from now, on September the 14th, the Church will celebrate a most peculiar feast: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. If the title of this feast doesn’t take each of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Why does charity nourish all other virtues? Charity has the “quality of perfecting the perfections which it meets with, it more greatly perfects where it finds greater perfection.” Discuss what St. Francis means by this. St. Francis says that small acts...