by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 4, 2022 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
12/2/2022 The times we live in feel divided among many lines – political, ideological, ecclesiological, and more. Our patron saints lived in similar times with much division. What words of wisdom might they offer us as we strive to approach the world with gentleness...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 4, 2022 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
” As much as we shall humble ourselves by true humility of heart, so much will the Almighty humble Himself in us to fill our hearts with the abundance of His Holy Spirit, Who will prepare us to receive the Lord in His holy birth. Let us cast our eyes on our Lord, and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 3, 2022 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
“We adore the Son of God in the bosom of His Eternal Father, triumphant and glorious; and we adore the same Son, humbled, annihilated, and hidden under our nature which he has united to His own, to live in a stable, to be born in poverty, in contempt, in suffering. He...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 2, 2022 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
“Our Lord was taken for a child like others; from all powerful He appears all powerless; from all great, all little. All gentle and kind, He allowed Himself to be guided like a little lamb; from all rich with the eternal riches of the Father of lights, of Whom He is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2022 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
” The Son of God, to show us an example, came to humble Himself with an abjection the most admirable which not only can be, but can even be thought of; for you see the God of all Majesty, as it were forgetting and annihilating this supreme and adorable greatness, came...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2022 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
“I entreat you to let our chief care be to purify our souls, in order to make them capable of receiving the fruits of this holy nativity. Empty your hearts of every other desire but that of receiving in them this Divine Infant, Who, when He finds them thus...