by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 7, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why do we need charity to perfect the virtues? What would virtues without charity look like? What is charity without the virtues? In other words, what does charity look like without virtue? Or, can charity exist without virtue? St. Francis says that besides charity,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis seems to imply that there is nothing good that can come from humans. Is this so? Now consider that first question in light of humans who have been regenerated by baptism. Can nothing good come from humanity still? If we are “utterly useless”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Uncategorized
Lift High the Cross This week’s reflection is written byMr. Joseph McDaniel, OSFS Just over a week from now, on September the 14th, the Church will celebrate a most peculiar feast: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. If the title of this feast doesn’t take each of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Why does charity nourish all other virtues? Charity has the “quality of perfecting the perfections which it meets with, it more greatly perfects where it finds greater perfection.” Discuss what St. Francis means by this. St. Francis says that small acts...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Do you find the analogy of the army general helpful as an explanation for giving God all glory while still recognizing our merits? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and love? Does one precede the others? Is there a paradox here? What is the distinction...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Can these virtues of faith, hope, and charity be practiced by Christians only? Often faith is presented as a static thing: either you have faith or you do not. What then does it mean that faith is a virtue (which is very much not a static thing)? Why are these...