Author Topic: What does it mean to do Gods will? (Read 646 times)

Disputaciones · « **on:** August 12, 2015, 09:16:46 PM »

Is it simply to follow the Commandments and not sin? To sanctify oneself (1 Thessalonians 4:3) in whatever state one deems he was called to?

Is "giving up your will entirely" something different or the same?

poche · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2015, 11:41:07 PM »

To simply follow the commandments and not to sin is the normal way to follow the will of God. However, there are some occaisons when God manifests his will to an individual and then it becomes a matter of whether you will do the will of God or not.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:10:16 AM »

There's a positive aspect -- wherein we actively do what we consider to be God's will (e.g. the commandments), and the negative sense -- wherein we accept all that God sends to us. Both involve a submission of the will to the will of God.

Cantarella · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:42:07 AM »

Permitame recomendarle este excelente libro:

Uniformity with God's Will
by
St. Alphonsus de Ligouri

http://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/uniformitygod.pdf

PerEvangelicaDicta · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2015, 11:16:43 AM »

Quote from: Cantarella

Permitame recomendarle este excelente libro:

Uniformity with God's Will
by
St. Alphonsus de Ligouri

http://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/uniformitygod.pdf

The best!

An excellent companion to St. Alphonsus' work is one recently noted by Stubborn: Trustful Surrender to God's Will https://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/trustful/p1ch1.shtml

The section "We Do Not Ask Enough" has caused me to reformulate my petitions.

You ask a lot of very good questions, Disputaciones, which illustrates your introspection. (and I learn much from the answers also)

poche · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2015, 11:13:29 PM »

The article on the life of St Jane Frances Chantal had a recommendation regarding spiritual direction that I would like to you on spirtual direction;

•Learn more about the Visitation nuns founded by St. Jane Frances; consider having a spiritual director. St. Francis de Sales, in speaking about the spirit of the institute he had founded with St. Jane, declares that it is "a spirit of profound humility towards God and of great sweetness towards our neighbor, inasmuch as there is less rigour towards the body, so much the more sweetness must there be in the heart." And because "this Congregation has been so established that no great severity may prevent the weak and infirm from entering it and giving themselves up to the perfection of divine love," he adds playfully: "If there be any sister so generous and courageous as to wish to attain perfection in a quarter of an hour by doing more than the Community does, I would advise her to humble herself and be content to become perfect in three days, following the same course as the rest. For a great simplicity must always be kept in all things: to walk simply, that is the true way for the daughters of the Visitation, a way exceedingly pleasing to God and very safe." Read the Treatise on the Love of God written by St. Francis de Sales for St. Jane and her sisters; donate food to the food pantry at your church, if you have more time volunteer to help.

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2015-08-12

While I don't expect you to become a Visitation nun, there is much food for thought that we can apply in our won daily lives.