by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
If we have not the holy love of God, all this would profit nothing for eternal life This week we are moving into the section from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Penitence and Charity” to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St John Bosco’s Feast is today, January 31st. Why is the congregation he founded named Salesians after St. Francis de Sales? The Visitation Order’s good friend, Father Joe Boenzi, SDB, explains it all in this article, below!...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 30, 2018 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News
February 2: Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a day of prayer for Religious and Religious of Apostolic Life. February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude la Colombière near Lyon February 15, 1682: Death of Saint Claude la Colombière February 15, 1730: Death of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
By His gift of faith, God comes into our souls, talks to our mind. He proposes truths in darkness, in obscurity. But once this divine brightness of faith comes down upon the mind, it compels the obedience of the intellect without any show of reasoning or argument....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2018 | Events, Photos & videos, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
This week, La Foi prise au mot (Faith at your word )invites you to discover a high figure of the 17th century: Saint Francis de Sales. What is often said is quite brief. Born in Savoy in 1567, he became bishop of Annecy, challenged the Protestants and died after...