by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Is it easy to honor God’s own remedy for a problem when it involves great difficulty? How can we do so?How can we learn to trust our Heavenly Father the way children trust their earthly fathers to provide for them and care for them?Do children just trust because they...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2024 | Sacred Heart
A blazing inferno An encyclical! Last June, at the time of the feast of the Sacred Heart, Pope Francis announced a document bringing together the reflections of the magisterium, but also a biblical, spiritual and pastoral journey retracing the history of devotion to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2024 | Advent, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
with Sister Francoise Therese Martin (Leonie), Visitandine, Sister of St Therese of Liseux Sunday December 1, 2024 ” What do we wish for each other, if not the love which became incarnate with the Son of God to set all hearts ablaze. The earth is therefore...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
“I Feel Much Pain, But Never Think of Remedies” This article is taken from a chapter in St. Francis de Sales Signature Set Volume II: Consoling Thoughts by Saint Francis de Sales which is available from TAN Books. To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2024 | Visitation History
December 8, 1602: Episcopal ordination of Saint Francis de Sales, in the church of his baptism, in Thorens. December 13, 1641: Birth in Heaven of Saint Jeanne de Chantal at the Monastery of the Visitation of Moulins, at the age of 69. December 17, 1887: Birth of the...