by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 20, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
4 – Maturity and fruitfulness Testament The little Institute, to reach its full maturity and multiply, will still benefit from the solicitude of its Founders to advance towards its future. Our blessed Father has only four more years to spend here below. Our holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 15, 2025 | Photos & videos, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Watch here with translation below Neuvaine pour la fête de St François de Sales. 1er Jour 1st Day How good God is to me! Admire the goodness of God. Oh, how good my God is to me! So it’s so good! How rich is your heart, Lord, in mercy, overflowing with goodness!...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2025 | Events, Salesian Spirituality
The 20th Annual Live Jesus! Virginia is on March 29, 2025 at St. John Neumann Parish in Reston, VA. This year’s Live Jesus! theme is “Bend Don’t Break: The Art of Salesian Spirituality.” St. Francis’ words remind us that we need encouragement and hope to help us find...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
January 1587: After praying the “Remember” in front of the statue of Our Lady of Good Deliverance, Saint Francis de Sales is delivered from a deep mystical night. He was then a young student in Paris, where the question of predestination was being debated...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 16, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
1617 and 1618 1617 was a year marked for our holy Founders by painful personal trials, the difficulties in Moulins and those of the construction of the monastery continued, while the steps in Rome for the transformation of the Institute languished. Divine pedagogy...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 13, 2024 | Events, Photos & videos, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Abiding Momently with Jesus in the Way of St Francis de Sales View the video below The 3rd Annual Fr John Graden, O.S.F.S. Memorial Lecture