by Sister Susan Marie | May 19, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How is life much like being on a ship in the middle of the sea?How even more is living a life of faith like being on a ship in the middle of the sea?What does it mean to be resigned to God’s will? What exactly is acquiescence?Does being pushed to the point of a...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 19, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, and poured out on the apostles. For us Christians, it is the incredible discovery of a new force, that of the Spirit of God, given in superabundance at baptism. The Spirit...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 16, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Stay the Course When Our Lord is the Captain Hi Susan,This article is taken from a chapter in Consoling Thoughts on God and Providence by Saint Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books. Here he uses an analogy of a person aboard a ship without knowing its...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 14, 2024 | Events, Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News
celebrating 350 years since the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary PRAYER In this sacrament of Love which is the Eucharist,We offer you our fatigues and our weariness: give us rest;We expose to you our sufferings and wounds: console us and heal us;We...