by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 7, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 6, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal
Since Monday September 7th is Labor Day, a holiday probably never envisioned 400 years ago by St. Jane de Chantal, we thought it might be interesting to reflect, nevertheless, on what St. Jane said about work in a Visitation Monastery, in her book of Answers. St. Jane...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 3, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
For With the Judgment You Pronounce You Will Be Judged Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about not showing partiality. Listen to what Francis de Sales has to say on this topic. If we like a certain practice we despise everyone else and oppose...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
This Visitandine of Nantes France was the daughter of a tradesman, a dyer of the late 17th century. She entered the Monastery of the Visitation of Nantes in 1690 and lived until the age of 86, a true Marian soul. She spoke with such fervor of divine Love that she was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Pope Francis has declared today, September 1st, as an annual day of prayer, penance and thanksgiving for creation. In his Treatise on the Love of God, our Founder, St Francis de Sales wrote in Book, 2, Chapter 2: God spoke but one word, and in virtue of that in a...