by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 15, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There are things which blemish perfect purity, without being in themselves downright acts of impurity Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about maintining purity. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 13: “How to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 10, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our Advent series with thoughts by St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. Sunday What is the Incarnation? It is what we call the hypostatic union, the union of the human nature with the divine, a union so close that although there are...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 7, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 12: “Purity” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Purity is the lily among virtues–by it men approach to the Angels. There is no beauty without purity, and human purity is chastity. We speak of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 4, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our Advent series with thoughts by St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. This week we focus on Blessed Mother and her unique role in the Incarnation of her Son. Sunday “At the moment the glorious Virgin gave her consent,the Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There are two kinds of obedience, one necessary, the other voluntary Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about obedience. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 11: “Obedience” from An Introduction to the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 28, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sister Susan Marie: With the Thanksgiving holiday here, how can stopping and giving thanks be a way of following the advice given here by St. Francis? Often the story of Martha and Mary is interpreted by looking at Martha exclusively in a negative light....