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.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 10, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the fine line between strictly following the commandments and lovingly obeying God who issues the commandments? 2. Some describe God’s law as a blueprint or our lives. What do you think about this analogy? Does it make sense to you? Why or why not? 3. If...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
God Desires Strongly For Us to Obey His Commandments 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 3, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
With God being omniscient (all-knowing), what room is there for free will and the fate of our ultimate destiny of either heaven or hell? God could see it all before everything was created, so how are we free? How do we explain that God wills all to be saved and yet...