by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2019 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
This year we take as our guide our Holy Founder, St. Francis de Sales, for the blessed season of Lent. Prayer before entering the season of Lent: “Lord, let this time of penance be inspired by You. You do not ask us for feats, just to come back to you, the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
FREE ONLINE NON-CREDIT COURSE FOR LENT The Salesian Center for Faith & Culture at DeSales University is offering a free online non-credit course for spiritual enrichment. Lent 2019: A Time of Enlightenment & Reconnecting is now open. Self-registration is easy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Guard of Honor, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
Christian courage There reigns in the world a frightful disorder, impiety goes head high and vice spreads everywhere with an outrageous liberty. Yet Jesus reminds us of a basic duty of religious morality: Christian courage!Alas too often by our concessions and our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 25, 2018 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
Thursday March 29 Holy Thursday I salute thee O holy Cross! standard of salvation, palm tree of life, sword wherewith the devil has been slain, medicine of immortality, defense of the present life, pledge of eternal life, sacred sign of Christians, trophy of King...
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...