by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
(March 17, 2016: Patrick, Bishop and Missionary) * * * * *“You are to become the father of a host of nations…” “Patrick was born in Britain of a Romanized family. At age 16 he was torn by Irish raiders from the villa of his father, Calpurnius, a deacon and minor local...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 15, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
How Do We Bring About Purification? Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about the importance of uprooting sin and temptation. We continue with Part I, Chapter 8: “How to Effect This Second Purification” from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more. “(Jn 8:11) This Gospel passage which we just heard over the weekend is echoed in the words of St. Francis de Sales: “The woman caught in adultery was brought to our Lord ashamed, full of fear, head down;...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
St. Francis de Sales mentions in the end that “such souls as I have described lose all the grace of their good deeds.” What does this teach us about the weight of sin and how it can ruin a lifetime of living virtuously? Why do you think that St. Francis emphasizes so...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales, we also walk the Lenten journey. As we approach Holy Week, the Treatise can give us much to meditate on. Book 13 of this holy work is its end, but for...