by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2013 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
SALESIAN DISCOVERY RETREAT : for Men, during Lent, by SKYPE http://www.oblates.org/the_oblates/salesian_retreat.htm ******************************************************************** Reverend Father Roger Balducelli, OSFS, former General of the Oblates...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
From Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM: ” Go before a crucifix to detest misuse of the graces of God which we have appropriated to ourselves and which we have used as if they were our own, because we have not sufficiently been unbent and enlivened. I know well...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 18, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Visitation Outreach
St. Francis’ three conditions of proper fasting:1.We must fast with our whole heart, that is to say, willingly, whole-heartedly, universally and entirely.2.Never to fast through vanity but always through humility.3.Look to God and do everything to please...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Events, LENT, Vocation news
Visitation Companion Melissa-Borgmann-Kiemde blogs in a fascinating, thought-provoking way on the Papal discernment here: Lent Begins! Papal Discernments and Vocation Journeys May your own discernment journey benefit from her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis gave many instructions to her Visitandine daughters. We begin a significant lesson for Lent. “Our Holy Founder says that our abode is on Calvary. To walk in this way we must follow the Savior. We shall be instructed and aided if...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
The title of this post is taken from a talk on February 10, 1849 by Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM, Superior in a Visitation Monastery at a time when the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Pius IX, had to flee Rome. Her advice is startlingly relevant for today! Below is her...