by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 4, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our series with Part V, Chapter 6, “Examination of the Soul’s Condition as Regards Our Neighbour,” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Here Saint Francis continues our examination by considering our relationship with our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 2, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How do you love yourself? Is it a love which concerns this life chiefly? If so, you will desire to abide here for ever, and you will diligently seek your worldly establishment,–but if the love you bear yourself has a heavenward tendency, you will long, or, at...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Observe where you have failed, and make fresh resolutions Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership We continue our series with Part V, Chapter 3, “Examination of the Soul as to its Progress in the Devout Life,” from An Introduction to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 11, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
0 AM Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Why do you think St. Francis has us consider all of this before really moving forward with a recommitment of our resolutions? Why not just jump into the resolutions? Which of these considerations jumped out at you? What is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 7, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Consider the points on which you are about to renew your resolutions Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership We continue our series with Part V, Chapter 2, “Meditation on the Benefit Conferred on Us by God in Calling Us to His...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 4, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Why do you think it is a worthy practice to recommit ourselves to the things we’ve commited ourselves?Considered in a simple way, we put into practice what St. Francis is recommending by the mere fact of having a yearly schedule that we...