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Ash Wed Through Lent with St Francis de Sales 2024
Wed Feb 14 Tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God, for he is tender and merciful, slow to anger and full of love, forgiving punishment. (Jl 2, 13) "But see, Theotime, with what ardor God desires that we be his. For this he became one of...
Sun chat Feb 11
St. Francis says that saying prayers in Latin can lead to greater devotion. How/why is this? And why is it still important to understand the translation of those prayers?What are the four ends of man?St. Francis says that sung canticles should be...
Newsletter for Sunday chat Feb. 11
Pray For Our Children Like St. Monica At our Living Jesus Chat this Sunday we will be talking about the following letter of St. Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat, please read the...
Sun Chat Feb 4
What does it mean that Christ has two natures (God and man)? Does this mean that God is capable of change?What does it mean that Christ has two natures (God and man)? Does this mean that God is capable of change?St. Francis quotes Jacob, saying that the Savior would...
Sr Maria Cecylia Krasinski, VHM, Translator, Author, Superior
of the Warsaw and Krakow Visitation Monasteries, 17th century! Visitationist Church - Church of St. Joseph of the Visitationists - Warsaw, Poland Maria Cecylia Krasińska – Warsaw Visitation Sister. Translating and publishing activity of the Warsaw convent of the...
Newsletter for Chat Feb 4
Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience Were at the Center of Life at Nazareth ,The following article is an excerpt taken from a sermon that was delivered by Saint Francis de Sales to a convent of nuns on Christmas Eve in the year 1614. Source: The Sermons of St Francis de...
Solitude- Guard of Honor for February
The lonely soul in Jesus Solitude is the virtue of the strong! It is also, said St Bernard, the paradise of saints. Certainly it is not a question of solitude suffered but of solitude chosen. It is good for our spiritual growth to withdraw from vain things...
Momento of the Month of February
February 2: Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, day of prayer for Religious men and women of apostolic life February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude La Colombière (Jesuit, apostle of devotion to the Sacred Heart and spiritual director of Saint...
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