by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2012 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Sweetness and consolation are what we persistently desire, but it is the bitter taste of dryness that is profitable. St. Peter would gladly have dwelt upon Mt. Tabor, though he fled from Calvary, but was not the greater work for us done upon the latter? And did...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 2, 2012 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
From the History of the Guard of Honor – Part 3 It is said that there are providential harmonies between the works of God and the places in which they are born. The Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was a result of a spiritual inspiration of a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2012 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
These weeks of Lent are a time for us to get ready for the Passion of Our Savior Jesus Christ, but how can we best prepare for such a momentous commemoration? St. Jane de Chantal advises us: We are going to commemorate the Passion of our Savior: let us strive to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2012 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
St. Jane de Chantal exhorted her Visitandine Sisters to grow toward perfect holiness by the means given them in their Congregation. She said, “ I can bring nothing before your eyes, in this holy time of Lent, my dear Sisters, nothing I say, more pressing than the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2012 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
St. Jane de Chantal: It is chiefly in this time of Lent that we are to apply ourselves to prayer, and we are to breathe recollectedness and mortification, even in our recreations. Let us advance in true virtue following our Lord in the desert, and praying, as he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 24, 2012 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
God prepares His eminent works for long ages, as we see from Salvation History in the Holy Scriptures. This was no exception in the case of the future Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Visitation Monastery of Bourg-en-Bresse- which was to be the cradle...