by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 6, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Judy K: Hi Sister Susan, I haven’t received the topic for tomorrow night’s chat. Please help! Oct 5 2014, 7:05 PM Sister Susan Marie: We did not select a chat topic as I was away but we can talk about Respect Life Sunday or anything you may want! Sister...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 22, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
In what ways have you been tempted with vanity? Have you ever wondered whether religious still have to struggle with vanity? Fr. de Caussade says that we must “examine peacefully this frightful interior ugliness.” How can one do this? What is frightful about it? How...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality
Traditionally, why were mirrors not available in Monasteries? Was it possible that vanity was a fault among some religious? How do you cope with the temptation to vanity? Jesuit Father Jean Pierre de Caussade addressed this issue with a Visitation Nun centuries ago...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 15, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How does your heart resonate with this approach in these tremulous times? 2.How have you put too much hope in yourself and your talents instead of into God? 3.What are the ways that you struggle to hope in God? What are the ways that help you hope in God? 4.Do you...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 11, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The times we are living in are trying. In fact it has been remarked that it is as if we are living during “World War III” geographically spread throughout the globe. How do we maintain our spirits in such an era as this? St Claude de la Colombiere SJ, the Spiritual...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 8, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Saints
The times we are living in are trying. In fact it has been remarked that it is as if we are living during “World War 111” geographically spread out throughout the globe. How do we maintain our spirits in such an era as this? St Claude de la Colombiere SJ, the...