by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 25, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
V+J SALESIAN STATIONS OF THE CROSS COMPILED BY HERBERT WINKLEHNER, OSFS TRANSLATED BY EUGENE KELLY, OSFS Your Cross: God’s greeting to you God’s eternal wisdom has foreseen from all eternity the Cross which he gives you from his heart as an invaluable gift. He thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2014 | LENT, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Lent is a time of Mercy and that prodigious Mercy flows from the Wounded and Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is being recognized in a powerful way in a Diocese in France, whose Bishop plans to consecrate his diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 21, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sunday March 23 The Blessed Savior might let his blood drop on the ashes of the original sinner Adam and that we might know his sin was cleansed when it was nailed to the Cross. Monday March 24 Consider the Savior raised and extended on the Cross. O supreme love of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 18, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
V+J Authenticity seems to be a much pursued characteristic of our times. But as Father Raniero Cantalemessa, Capuchin, remarks in his recent Lenten sermon, it depends on a deep interior life. Visitandines, and Salesians of every type know that our Founder and Patron,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2014 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
V+J Sunday March 16 “Consider that the Eternal Father has so loved the world that He has given to it His only Son; and the Son has so loved the will of His Father, that seeing Him desirous of saving human nature, without heeding the meanness and indignity of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Living Lent with St. Francis de Sales-Charity A key element in our Lenten practices is almsgiving or other forms of charity. St. Francis de Sales expounds on this foundational aspect of our Christian lives. He said, ” Our Divine Master gave us His life not only to...