by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 27, 2022 | Discernment with DeSales
It is said that gratitude is the key to happiness. Why do you think this might be?How can the impulse to be grateful be a proof for God’s existence? In other words, how can we be grateful for the gift of life if it was not actually gifted?What...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2022 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
When God Calls Introduction For several years, the Bishop of Geneva has dreamed of founding a religious congregation. His intuitions are clear: to be able to welcome women who, because of their health or their age, would not be welcomed into a more austere...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 6, 2021 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News
While St Francis de Sales annual Feast is approaching on January 24th, a unique 400th anniversary is also looming, that of his passing into eternity in 1622, on the 28th of December. The entire Salesian world will be marking this anniversary in various ways. The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2020 | Discernment with DeSales
Though primarily St. Francis is writing to religious in these reflections, how can the non-consecrated benefit and learn from this practice of avoiding the attachments of “yours” and “mine”? In other words, how does this apply to members of a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 8, 2020 | Discernment with DeSales
Though it might seem obvious, why is it so important to renounce our wills and to abandon to God? What would it look like to renounced our will but not abandon to God?2. What does it mean to accept equally poverty and wealth, affliction and consolation, and so on?3....
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...