by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday March 1 “Seeing that he preferred Joseph to them, his other sons hated him, and they could no longer speak to him without hostility. “(Gn 37,4) I love your advancement in solid piety, and this advancement requires difficulties, so that you may be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Dear friends- Guards of honor, Even though we are in Lent, a path of interior purification, the words of our foundress, written over a century and a half ago, once again resonate in a very particular way with our current affairs. Let us know how to read them in their...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What did you think about this great saint taking a moment to reflect in a letter on something so seemingly simple as pigeons eating food?2. St. Francis says that the pigeons were expressing an act of charity. Is this the same as an act of charity that we as humans...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday February 22 Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God! “(Mt 16:16) Our souls must give birth, not outside of themselves but in themselves, to a male child, the sweetest, most gracious and beautiful that can be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 18, 2021 | LENT
Second Sunday of Lent – February 28, 2021 Sunday of Abraham, this second stage of our Lent is also Transfiguration Sunday. “Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will. These words from Psalm 39, we could put them in the mouths of Abraham, but also of Isaac, Moses,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
with St. Francis de Sales Wednesday February 17 “Give me back the joy of being saved; may the generous spirit support me. “(Ps 50:14) He who longs will love ardently. My God Theotimas! who will give us the grace to burn with this desire, which is the desire of...