by Sister Susan Marie | May 23, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
How can we find more hope in the loss of a loved one? What about for someone who did not die in the faith? How can we be more supportive (and encouraging) of those who choose a vocation that requires them to leave us? St. Francis wrote...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 22, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality
The Holy Spirit gives us the peace of God Peace is one of the most important words in the Bible and in Christianity. significant. The whole Mass is punctuated by this word: “Peace on earth to men of good will”, “peace be with you”; “go to...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 16, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The texts of the Sixth Sunday of Easter reveal to us the face of the Church, a Church capable of universality in his mission: Paul and Barnabas brought back all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the nations. The faith ! St Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 6, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
in Annecy: We have arrived in May. On the 1st, we celebrated St Joseph, worker. The Book of Hours says: “Work is joy and pain, it is service to the community and approach to God: this is what we learn at the school of Nazareth. And in Constitution 16: “How good it is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
All those who love Jesus deeply necessarily have an infinite tenderness and devotion for his mother Mary! On the Cross, in a silent heart-to-heart prayer, Jesus bequeathed to his Mother all the graces He possessed, and addressing John, He gave her to us as Mother! In...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 27, 2022 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History
Memo of the monthMay 13, 1920: Canonization by Pius Ⅺ of Saint Marguerite-Marie (mystical nun of the monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, confidante of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). May 13, 1933: Birth in Heaven of Venerable Sister Marie-Marguerite Bogner at...