by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 16, 2017 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Avoid all vanity Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about our modesty. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 25: “Modesty in Dress” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Here Saint Francis teaches...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 15, 2017 | LENT
We continue with thoughts of Mother Philomene du Gasset for Lent. She suggests there is a third kind of fasting beyond the normal fast and abstinence. “This penance is self-reformation. It consists in quitting self, combating our defects and laboring to acquire...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 13, 2017 | Museum of the Visitation, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Today the word “lace” irresistibly evokes fashion. The historical reality of lace is quite different. Indeed, it was not particularly feminine since men wore it as much as women for three centuries. Worn with sleeves, collar, hair, hairstyles and dresses,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 13, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
This is topic touches on what is probably the defining character of Christianity. Christianity isn’t some political system or ideology strictly intended to better society. No, Jesus tells us: “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2017 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
In French, in commemoration of St Francis de Sales 450th anniversary of birth: https://rcf.fr/spiritualite/st-francois-de-sales-une-spiritualite-pour-aujourdhui-1ere-partie https://rcf.fr/spiritualite/st-francois-de-sales-une-spiritualite-pour-aujourdhui-2eme-partie...