by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 25, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
V+J SALESIAN STATIONS OF THE CROSS COMPILED BY HERBERT WINKLEHNER, OSFS TRANSLATED BY EUGENE KELLY, OSFS Your Cross: God’s greeting to you God’s eternal wisdom has foreseen from all eternity the Cross which he gives you from his heart as an invaluable gift. He thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2014 | Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales’ sermon for a Religious Profession on the Feast of the Annunciation of 1621 highlights the beauty of the call of God to the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose vocation became so clear on that day. St Francis quotes the Song of Songs,” Let Him...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
In a busy world full of distractions, how can we shut out the “noise” and find quiet? Why does God often choose to speak to us in the silence? When St. Augustine asks us to ‘re-enter our hearts’, what does he mean? How do we “wander outside of” our hearts in the first...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2014 | LENT, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Lent is a time of Mercy and that prodigious Mercy flows from the Wounded and Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is being recognized in a powerful way in a Diocese in France, whose Bishop plans to consecrate his diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2014 | Visitation News, Vocation news
Two professed at the Monastery of the Visitation in Scy-Chazelles Sister Maria Teresa and Sister Françoise-Marie pronounced their first vows of chastity, poverty and obedience January 24, 2014 Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, the monastery of the Visitation in...