by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Guard of Honor, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
Christian courage There reigns in the world a frightful disorder, impiety goes head high and vice spreads everywhere with an outrageous liberty. Yet Jesus reminds us of a basic duty of religious morality: Christian courage!Alas too often by our concessions and our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Why do you suppose suffering and affliction are part of God’s plan? Why didn’t God redeem us in a way that didn’t require this?What does it mean to “please” the Lord? If God is sufficient and perfectly happy in Himself without us, then...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death Hi Subscriber, This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with the book 9, chapter 3 “Of The Union Of Our Will To The Divine Good-Pleasure In Spiritual Afflictions, By Resignation.” The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
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