by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 16, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare – March 14 But God is rich in mercy; because of the great love with which he loved us. (Ep 2, 4) Your miseries and your infirmities should not astonish you: God has seen others, and his mercy does not reject the miserable. (To a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 9, 2021 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
Monday March 8 But he, passing through the midst of them, was on his way. (Lk 4:30) Who does not see that the world is like an iniquitous judge: full of indulgence for his children; but hard and relentless for those of...
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...