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...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
“Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”(Mt 28:16-20) Sermon, May 21, 1595 (Works of St. Francis de Sales, VII, 255) Today the Church celebrates a great solemnity to the glory of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 23, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The Whole of Yourself Is to Be Buried and Abandoned Forever At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Francis de Sales to St. Jane de Chantal, written from Annecy on May 18, 1616, taken from Selected Letters of St. Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 21, 2024 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Every year, for the feast of the Visitation, a highlight is offered to you to better enter into the legacy of Saint Francis de Sales. The theme of this 2024 edition is entitled “Heart of Jesus, treasure of joy”, an expression of Saint Marguerite-Marie...