by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality
The ways that St. Francis describes Our Lady here hearken back to the original innocence of Adam and Eve. Before the Fall they had perfect integrity (meaning their souls were always in perfect harmony with their bodies and there was no concupiscence in them). What is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2018 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Willing Holiness “I do not do the good that I want and do the harm I do not want. As St Paul mentions in his letter to the Romans (7,19), each one of us can make this sad statement. In the face of a duty that falls upon us, in the presence of a clearly...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 17, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Jul 22, 7:39 PM Dawn (Guest): 1. What does it mean that Mary did not live, but Jesus lived in her? Is this pious language? What does this mean? Jul 22, 7:42 PM Judy (Guest): St. Paul said that he lived not he, but Christ lived in him. How much more can she, who...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 16, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
When we say that “love believes all things,” what does this mean? Does it mean love is ignorant and gullible? Have you known anyone who is this devout? How does this devotion influence their character? Does this kind of devotion remind you of Jesus’...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 12, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
His heart was “broken with excess and fervour of love” This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 7 (“Of The Union Of The Soul With Her God, Which Is Perfected In Prayer.”). This week we will...