by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 17, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior said to her community of Sisters: ” The great mystery the Church presents to our faith in these holy days imposes on us a respectful silence, rather than obliges us to speak, because all speaks, instructs, touches, penetrates, , and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 10, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior exhorted to her community of Sisters, “I am persuaded, dear Sisters, that your charities are occupied during this time of grace and salvation, in nourishing your faith and piety according to the spirit of the Church. Let us try to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2018 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
The Prayer of Mother Anne-Regis Filliat “O Divine Lover of the Cross, in your example may I learn to love the crucifixion of the body and the spirit! »: “Whoever is called to work actively in the Lord’s Vineyard must learn, as the Divine Master...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2018 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior speaks ” Have the same sentiment as Jesus Christ’ is the exhortation of the Apostles to the faithful and it seems the Church cannot repeat it to often after them, during these holy days, in which the Church presents to us our Head,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 24, 2018 | LENT
From a Superior’s Talk: “We must, to enter into the spirit of the Church, retrace in ourselves the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, crucifying ourselves spiritually with Him on Mount Calvary and dying with Him by a perpetual mortification. It is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2018 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
Today February 20 was a special day for St Francis de Sales, back in 1602! He was not yet a Bishop but he preached the Lenten sermons in Paris on that day at the Louvre, in response to some princesses who had invited him, especially the princess of Longueville. His...