by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 18, 2021 | LENT
Second Sunday of Lent – February 28, 2021 Sunday of Abraham, this second stage of our Lent is also Transfiguration Sunday. “Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will. These words from Psalm 39, we could put them in the mouths of Abraham, but also of Isaac, Moses,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
with St. Francis de Sales Wednesday February 17 “Give me back the joy of being saved; may the generous spirit support me. “(Ps 50:14) He who longs will love ardently. My God Theotimas! who will give us the grace to burn with this desire, which is the desire of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2020 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation Outreach
with St Margaret Mary Alacoque! (From her Life and Writings) Tuesday Second Week of Lent: ” To work or to suffer is all one to a heart that loves.” Monday Second Week of Lent: ” Like a faithful servant, you must forget yourself so as to work...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 24, 2020 | LENT, Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
We are going to enter the time of Lent, a time of grace to “return to the Lord with all our heart”. Lenten gestures of fasting, almsgiving and prayer are traditional ways of changing our lives. St Margaret Mary, in these notices to her sisters, invites us...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2019 | LENT
“There was at the table, leaning against Jesus, one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved” (Jn13, 23) “Think that you are a little Saint John who has to sleep on the breast of Our Lord … So stay, dear Sister, like a little Saint John, and while...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2019 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Now Mary had taken a book of a very pure perfume of great value; she spread the perfume on Jesus’ feet, which she wiped from her hair. »(Jn 12,3) “This saint was admirable in this practice of humility; for from the moment of her conversion to her death,...