by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 20, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Name of Honor Amongst Christians Shall Be No Other Than God’s Will in Them 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 19, 2018 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Every person needs a “center” in his own life, a source of truth and goodness to draw from in different situations and everyday fatigue. Each of us, when he stops in silence, needs to feel not only the beating of his heart, but, more deeply, the beatings...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the difference between commands and counsels? Why doesn’t God simply make everything a command? What significance is there in having counsels? In our modern age Christianity is often caricatured as some type of fire insurance religion where mere belief...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
From the Oblates: Exultation of the Holy Cross Today we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Christ’s victory over death on a cross reveals the radiance of God’s pure love for us. St. Francis de Sales notes: Out of Jesus’ death on the cross comes eternal life....
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 13, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There Is a Difference Between Commanding and Recommending This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 6, “Of The Conformity Of Our Will To That Will Of God Which Is Signified Unto Us By His Counsels.”...