by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
“You will catch more flies,” St. Francis used to say, “with a spoonful of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar. Were there any thing better or fairer on earth than gentleness, Jesus Christ would have taught it us; and yet he has given us only...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 5, 2014 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
V+J Sunday April 6 Consider that it was on the cross, that the eternal Son gave the kiss of love to His heavenly Father on behalf of humankind. Jesus, flower of the field, being pressed under thee winepress of the cross, gave out a fragrance that gladdened God,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2014 | Visitation News, Vocation news
Monastic Beauty: It may be stark, or it may be rich. It will touch your five senses and it will enfold your soul. Monastic life, monastic environment, monastic prayer, monastic horarium, monastic music, monastic architecture all nourish the spiritual life of the soul,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
A recent article entitled “The Pope and the Philosopher “ http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350753?eng=y asserts that Pope Francis draws much of his perspective from a philosopher named Alberto Methol Ferre who contended that our world lives today in a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
The most recent issue of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales” “Bondings” has a wonderful article by their Provincial entitled Joyful Saint, Joyful Pope. You can access it here:...