by Editor | Dec 20, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Perfection of Obedience This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 8, “That The Contempt Of The Evangelical Counsels Is A Great Sin.” The words in which our Saviour exhorts us to tend towards...
by Editor | Dec 17, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
God has given us our own wills, yet desires that we follow His. How does God use our own will to lead us to His?2. If we simply follow God’s will, does that mean that we don’t have a will of our own?3. How does following the Commandments and living the...
by Editor | Dec 14, 2018 | Advent, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in both Paris and Troyes, France in the mid-1800’s, was also the inspiration for the foundation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales through Blessed Louis Brisson. From a conference Mother Chappuis...
by Editor | Dec 13, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Not My Will, But Yours Be Done This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 7, “That the love of God’s will signified in the Commandments moves us to the love of the Counsels.” O Theotimus! how...
by Editor | Dec 12, 2018 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality
“If someone had asked the Child in Mary’s womb where He was going, He could have replied: I do not go anywhere; my mother goes for me. I can’t go anywhere unless she does. If she doesn’t carry me, I don’t get to go at all. She...
by Editor | Dec 10, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In the Catechism, it states that the fear of hell is a good start in the right direction, but that one ultimately needs to have a love for God and for heaven. How is that statement connected to today’s reflection? Does this love of indifference leave room for...