by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why will perfect union be realized only in heaven? What factors will bring about the perfect union? What can we do here on earth to augment our happiness in heaven? Is there a difference between our union with truth here on earth and our union with the Truth in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
1.What do you think of the paradox that God wants us to desire him, and yet we need God to infuse us with that desire?2.Why is it that we should grow in charity and holiness? Why is not enough to just ” “accept Jesus”? 3.God wants us to “seek...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
He that is just let him be justified still This week we are moving into book three (“Of The Progress And Perfection Of Love.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “How Our Love of God Can Continue...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Repentance that does not reject love of God, although it may lack it, is good, but imperfect. But if it did not progress to a holy love of God in some degree, it would profit us nothing for everlasting life. When does repentance become penitence? What types of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
If we have not the holy love of God, all this would profit nothing for eternal life This week we are moving into the section from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Penitence and Charity” to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
By His gift of faith, God comes into our souls, talks to our mind. He proposes truths in darkness, in obscurity. But once this divine brightness of faith comes down upon the mind, it compels the obedience of the intellect without any show of reasoning or argument....