by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 5, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de SalesOn the TRANSGIFURATIONSermon for the 2nd Sunday of Lent — February 23, 1614Oeuvres de St. François de SalesÉdition complète, Annecytome IX, pages 27-31(translated by Thomas F. Dailey, OSFS)On the first Sunday of Lent, the Church shows us the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Related to the opening paragraph in this letter, discuss this quote from Mother Teresa: “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”What exactly is humility?St. Paul tells us that one of the main...
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...