by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 27, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Let’s talk about the distinction between God’s absolute will and God’s signified will. Why does Saint Francis see it as important to call our attention to this? A lot of people have a difficult time understanding how there can be room for free will...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 23, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
When We Obey, God Contributes His Assistance, His Inspiration, and His Grace We sometimes consider God’s will as it is in itself, and finding it all holy and all good, we willingly praise, bless and adore it, and sacrifice our own and all other...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 20, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the difference of submitting to God as Lord and Master compared to submitting to God out of love? Are the two mutually exclusive? How might they come into play at different times in our spiritual lives? This reflection calls to attention the part of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 16, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Love of Benevolence Casts Our Hearts Into God This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8 (“Of The Love of Conformity, By Which We Unite Our Will To The Will Of God, Signified Unto Us By His Commandments,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality
The ways that St. Francis describes Our Lady here hearken back to the original innocence of Adam and Eve. Before the Fall they had perfect integrity (meaning their souls were always in perfect harmony with their bodies and there was no concupiscence in them). What is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2018 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Willing Holiness “I do not do the good that I want and do the harm I do not want. As St Paul mentions in his letter to the Romans (7,19), each one of us can make this sad statement. In the face of a duty that falls upon us, in the presence of a clearly...