by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 26, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Do your friends, family or acquaintances at work criticize your religious practices? How do you handle this? St. Francis says that such people “have no real regard” for our well being. Why do you think they do this? What does our saint offer as a benefit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Charity is kind, but the world is unkind Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership We continue our series with Part IV, Chapter 1 “We must not trifle with the Words of Worldly Wisdom” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Here Saint Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Jun 14, 1:03 PM VisitationSiste: Questions to Ponder: What do you make of the distinction between a “widow indeed” and a woman who is “widowed in externals”? Is Saint Francis diminishing the decision of widowed women who choose to move on to a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 12, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Questions to Ponder: The vocation to marriage necessarily calls into focus the procreative nature of marriage. How can marriage be procreative aside from the gift and fruitfulness of human life? Marriage has two ends: unitive and procreative (see Catechism 1601). What...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 5, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Have you ever thought of the fact that marriage is a vocation that should be discerned, just like the priesthood andr religious life is discerned? How do you think the Church can better highlight the sanctity and importance of marriage? How can married couples and...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 31, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We must ponder the holiness and dignity of this Sacrament Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 38 “Counsels to Married People” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Here Saint...