by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 3, 2011 | "Justice Shall Flourish" booklet, Salesian Spirituality
Today we begin posting our series on Salesian spirituality and social justice. LIFE AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON “I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly”(John 10:10) TENET OF SOCIAL JUSTICE: God, the Lord of Life, has conferred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 19, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales often preached on the proclamation of Jesus: “Love one another as I have loved you.” Starting with the fact that the dignity of the human person lies in being called to loving union with God in Christ, it follows for St. Francis that...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Salesian Spirituality is profoundly relational; it recognizes that spiritual progress comes in and through relationships. It is in the way human persons love one another that Jesus can be seen walking the face of the earth again. The way a person is with others is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Salesian tradition values doing the little things in the midst of ordinary and busy lives. In a very real sense, the person lives Jesus by “doing all ordinary things in an extraordinary way.” The Scriptural basis for this value is, “Come to me...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 7, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Salesian Spirituality is founded on the belief that all people are created in God’s image and likeness. Recognizing this, there is the challenge to treat each human person with respect, even reverence. For St Francis, this dignity supercedes all other facets of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 6, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales defines love as an active union of human will with the Divine. This love is imitative of Jesus’ love for his Father. St. Francis says that the Christian lives between the “two wills of God”: God’s will to be done,...