by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 19, 2016 | Events, Holy Year of Mercy, Year of Consecrated Life
38 Visitandines along with members of hundreds of congregations are preparing for the Consecrated Life in Unity week. Here’s the program, in Italian:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 19, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
On January 19, 1601, St. Francis de Sales was by his dying father’s bedside. He wrote to his Bishop,” I am here and will remain here as a duty to assist my father who day by day advances quickly toward eternal life. ” Baron Boisy, St Francis’...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 18, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
On January 18, 1619, St Francis de Sales renewed a friendship he had formed in 1602 with Andre Duval, Dean of the Sorbonne. These two priests went to confession to each other and gave each other advice for spiritual growth. Each one said of the other, “I am not...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 18, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Nothing is too small for the Kingdom of God. Why do you think (in God’s wisdom) that the best plan for our salvation was for God to become a child? Why do you think that it was so important for Mary to want Jesus to turn water into wine? To be a great saint and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 17, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
As we prepare for the Saint’s Feast on January 24, a week from today, looking back on this day in his life shows us: On January 17, St. Francis de Sales preached a eulogy of St Anthony the Abbot, chosen by him as a protector of his interior desert. “And in...