by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality
Traditionally, why were mirrors not available in Monasteries? Was it possible that vanity was a fault among some religious? How do you cope with the temptation to vanity? Jesuit Father Jean Pierre de Caussade addressed this issue with a Visitation Nun centuries ago...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 15, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How does your heart resonate with this approach in these tremulous times? 2.How have you put too much hope in yourself and your talents instead of into God? 3.What are the ways that you struggle to hope in God? What are the ways that help you hope in God? 4.Do you...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2014 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
By the age of 16 Serafina exhibited the brightness of an intelligence that would penetrate situations and things in all areas of life; she acquired a practical way that would make her qualified to carry out any task. “Jesus – she said – He taught me...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 13, 2014 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
PART ONE The story of this Visitation Nun of Rosolini Italy is intimately connected with the life of Mother Carmela Aprile http://visitationspirit.org/2013/08/mother-rosolini-sept-mystic-of-the-month/ and is just as supernaturally amazing! The child was born March 5,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 13, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality
(September 14, 2014: Exaltation of the Holy Cross) * * * * * “He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.” In a sermon preached on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Francis de Sales remarked: “St. Paul, the outstanding master...