by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
St. Francis frequently told those who came to him for spiritual direction that they should bloom where they were planted. They should make the best of what was at hand. He is teaching us the same truth today. He says: “Instead of tilling the field in which we find...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 16, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales
God’s Presence in Our Sometimes Messy Lives Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about peace amidst suffering. In 1954, the great French painter, Henri Matisse, died at the age of eighty-six. In the last years of his life, arthritis crippled and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 13, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
SRSUSAN (guest): After the Resurrection, Jesus’ glorified body could have been in any condition that God wanted. Why do you think God chose to keep the scars of Jesus? Why were none of the other wounds left? When the other disciples told Saint Thomas about the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
We, the Visitandines of Moulins, is the title of the new exposition highlighting 400 years of the Visitation Order in the city of Moulins, France. Founded in 1616, this Visitandine community was the place where Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, spent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 10, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Holy Year of Mercy
The Wounds of Our Past Leave Their Mark Live+Jesus The Holy Father’s Bull on Divine Mercy may be found here and may help in the chat: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html...