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Holy Week Meditations of St Francis de Sales

by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

THAT THE JOY AND HAPPINESS OF THE DEVOUT SOUL IS IN THE CROSS Sunday April 13 “Truly this was the Son of God” We desire no other joy nor shade than that of the cross, no other drink than the blood which trickles down it, no other food than the fruit of...

St. Francis de Sales and Images of the Cross

by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 9, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

The current, April 2014 issue of the ICSS Newsletter, (International Commission of Salesian Studies) has an excellent, scholarly article,  so timely for this week as we approach Holy Week. It is entitled Images of the Cross in St. Francis de Sales, by Philippe Legros....

“The Salesian Spirit of the Jesuit Pope”

by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 8, 2014 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News

On March 15th, 2014, a wonderful conference was held on the general topic of Francis & Francis: Living the Gospel Today by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in Vienna, Virginia. “The Salesian Spirit of the Jesuit Pope” Keynote Speakers Rev. Peter Folan, SJ Rev....

Chatting about: Lenten Joy with Pope Francis & St Francis

by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room

“You will catch more flies,” St. Francis used to say, “with a spoonful of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar. Were there any thing better or fairer on earth than gentleness, Jesus Christ would have taught it us; and yet he has given us only...

Lent Week 5: Meditations of St Francis de Sales

by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 5, 2014 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales

V+J Sunday April 6 Consider that it was on the cross, that the eternal Son gave the kiss of love to His heavenly Father on behalf of humankind. Jesus, flower of the field, being pressed under thee winepress of the cross, gave out a fragrance that gladdened God,...
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