by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We Have to Go on Bearing Ourselves Until God Bears Us to Heaven At our Living Jesus Chat this Sunday we will be talking about the following letter of St. Francis de Sales to Marie Bourgeois Brulart, of Dijon, wife of Nicolas Brulart who became president of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2024 | Visitation History
Byzantine icon at the Cloistered Visitation Nuns in Treviso There is a Byzantine icon of obscure origins, but certainly very distant in time, inside a monastery on the outskirts of Treviso, a few steps from one of the busiest arteries that skirt the city. It is a high...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 10, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean that the love of God is known by obedience? Are we supposed to blindly do whatever anyone tells us to do?How do we “do nothing without love”?Why is it important to try to emulate a particular Saint, and perhaps focus on just one at a time in the aid...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 10, 2024 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sun March 10 Source: Carême 2023 Archives – Page 3 sur 5 – Association Saint François de Sales (saint-francois-de-sales.com) Come, let us shout for joy for the Lord, let us acclaim our Rock, our salvation! (Ps 94, 1) O God! we speak of the Friend of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2024 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
In the middle of the ancient village of Moselweiss, a little half an hour from Coblenz on the Rhine, a beautiful monastery building has been rising for some years now, surrounded by a small grove, to which a large garden adjoins. Walls surround the whole estate,...