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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 22, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Saints
FOR THE FEAST OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE July 2, 1621 The mind of man is always worried, it is in continual agitations in search of human and apparent goods, which means that finding no contentment in those he meets, he remains full of trouble. From then on, thinking of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 18, 2022 | Events, Photos & videos, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
This symposium is part of the 4th Centenary of the death of Saint Francis de Sales. 1622-2022. 400 years after his death, these “Interviews of Saint Germain” will take place in Talloires between the Abbey which once preoccupied François de Sales and the...