by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Dear all, summer continues! Let’s go on beautiful feasts so dear to our hearts, those of Mary that we honor especially this month.Mary always leads us to her Son, She is the surest way to meet him. But Mary, the all Pure, challenges us on the way we behave.If we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, our Holy Mother, is celebrated on August 12. This year we will present a “novena” to spiritually prepare for the Feast, in a slightly different form. Meditations taken from a talk by a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We always have to move forward between two pitfalls: self-contempt and self-esteem. To the one who would despise his own life, Francis de Sales responds: “Don’t forget that God has given you gifts, that he has placed qualities in you! “And to him who...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“The saints, like Saint Francis de Sales, are and always will be experts in humanity, because they have shown themselves to be experts in divinity”. Having left all the room for God in their life, they have become particularly harmonized, unified, pacified...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 27, 2022 | Ebooks, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
RAVIER Francesco di Sales – OneDrive (sharepoint.com)
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 25, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Visitation Sr (Guest): What is the purpose of religious life? Is it simply a safe haven for people who want to escape the world and have an “easier” way to obtain holiness? Or is it something else?How do we find the balance of...