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From Annecy-Day Four-Providence-Peace

by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach

“What,” he said to me in Lyon, “that could shake our peace? Certainly, when everything turns upside down, I will not be disturbed; for what is everyone worth together, in comparison to the peace of heart? This firmness proceeded, it seems to me, from...

From Annecy-St Jane-Day 3-Hope

by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach

“I have clearly recognized, conferring with our Blessed, that he has received from God a tasty, tender and constant love for the goods promised to us in the other life, which I have known that he hoped with humble confidence in God’s mercy and in the merit...

St. Francis de Sales on the Transfiguration

by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 5, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis de SalesOn the TRANSGIFURATIONSermon for the 2nd Sunday of Lent — February 23, 1614Oeuvres de St. François de SalesÉdition complète, Annecytome IX, pages 27-31(translated by Thomas F. Dailey, OSFS)On the first Sunday of Lent, the Church shows us the...

Sunday chat July 31

by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

Related to the opening paragraph in this letter, discuss this quote from Mother Teresa: “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”What exactly is humility?St. Paul tells us that one of the main...

Our Uniqueness

by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

We always have to move forward between two pitfalls: self-contempt and self-esteem. To the one who would despise his own life, Francis de Sales responds: “Don’t forget that God has given you gifts, that he has placed qualities in you! “And to him who...

A Fruitful Life

by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales

“The saints, like Saint Francis de Sales, are and always will be experts in humanity, because they have shown themselves to be experts in divinity”. Having left all the room for God in their life, they have become particularly harmonized, unified, pacified...
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