by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Complacence in God leads towards benevolence towards God. What makes the transition? Wherein lies the difficulty as regards a benevolent love toward God? How can we express it? Do you find your joy in the Lord? It requires concentration on the Lord. – i.e., the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 11, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales had a deep devotion to St. Joseph. The scholar, Father Joseph Chorpenning, OSFS, has written about this in a chapter entitled, “St. Joseph in the Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and of Francis de Sales:Convergences and Divergences, published...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 10, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior exhorted to her community of Sisters, “I am persuaded, dear Sisters, that your charities are occupied during this time of grace and salvation, in nourishing your faith and piety according to the spirit of the Church. Let us try to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2018 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
The Prayer of Mother Anne-Regis Filliat “O Divine Lover of the Cross, in your example may I learn to love the crucifixion of the body and the spirit! »: “Whoever is called to work actively in the Lord’s Vineyard must learn, as the Divine Master...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 7, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The love of benevolence causes in us a desire This week we are continuing with book five (“Of The Two Principal Exercises Of Holy Love Which Consist In Complacency And Benevolence.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Given the definition of complacence, which actually means pleasing in this case, how do you define this kind of pleasing love? How does complacence, or pleasing love, become a transforming force in the soul making it like unto God? What is compassion, condolence,...