by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 24, 2013 | Events, Visitation News, Vocation news
Sister Mary of the Brooklyn Visitation Monastery began an eight day retreat yesterday to prepare for her entrance into the novitiate on May 1st. Please pray for her during this time. Sister Mary is the the Brooklyn community’s first member from North...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 24, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Here is an important hint for Holy Living in the Salesian Tradition: Live in The Present Moment: St. Francis de Sales offers us this helpful advice: “Leave the past to God’s mercy, the future to his Divine Providence and embrace the present willingly and...
by Danielle Adams | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
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by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Struggle with temptation? Who doesn’t? Even Our Lord Jesus was tempted, yet never sinned. But our choices are more at risk, so we need to find ways to shore up our decisions in times of stress, vulverability and temptation. St. Francis de Sales has much to say...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 22, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Many people today are living with a high degree of anxiety. The tragedy at the Boston Marathon increased the general inner unrest that citizens feel already due to heart-rending public and private situations. St. Francis de Sales also lived in a time of serious...