by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 28, 2016 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Our new weekly series will consist of excerpts of a book called An Abridgement of the Interior Spirit of the Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary to assist those discerning a vocation to our way of life, or others interested in growing in their inner spiritual...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 17, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
What are your strengths and weaknesses? It is here that we learn to grow, by acknowledging the things we need God to improve in us. In our struggle to discover our vocation, we tend to forget that our vocation is caught up in community and communion with others. Have...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 18, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales
The Founder of the Visitation Sisters, Bishop St. Francis de Sales, held deep theological positions on the concept of freedom. We will manifest his thinking during the “Fortnight for Freedom” through Fr. Eunan McDonnell’s book, The Concept of Freedom in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales
Jesus: Unchanging and Always New Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about newness and uniqueness. In the preface to his Introduction to the Devout Life, Francis de Sales wrote: Glycera, a bouquet maker, was so skillful at changing flowers...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 16, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales
God’s Presence in Our Sometimes Messy Lives Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about peace amidst suffering. In 1954, the great French painter, Henri Matisse, died at the age of eighty-six. In the last years of his life, arthritis crippled and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 14, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
As we prepare for St Francis de Sales Feast, January 24th, during this Year of Consecrated Life, we are looking at the Saint’s perspectives on Religious Life. This second post shares his point of view on the aim: “I say, then, my dear daughters, that our only...