by Sister Susan Marie | May 30, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
When Temptation Becomes Sinful This article is taken from a chapter in An Introduction to the Devout Life: Philothea by Saint Francis de Sales which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced below, and...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2024 | Guard of Honor
Our heart united to the Heart of Jesus A heart surrendered entirely to Jesus is not a solitary heart, even less a heart self-centered. The love of the Heart of Jesus expands it, ennobles it, devotes it and consecrates it to all legitimate affections. By approaching...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St Francis de Sales said of this biblical event, the Visitation: “Do you not think that what most particularly prompted our glorious Mistress to make this visit was her most ardent charity and a very profound humility which enabled her to pass with such speed...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean to prepare our souls for something? How can we do this?What is self-renunciation?What would it be like to make it a habit to say the prayer that St. Francis suggests, “tear me away from myself. O self, I put you away...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
As the Eucharistic procession makes its way across our nation this weekend, let us take a look at St Francis de Sales relationship to this Blessed Sacrament. Francis received his First Communion and Confirmation at the age of about nine. From then on he received...