by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 9, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
What danger lies in giving way to scrupulosity?What can we do to avoid scrupulosity?Though God asks much of us, what does it mean to entrust everything to his hands?Why is it important to not be overly concerned with our successes and whether we fully...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
by the Superior of Annecy Visitation Who is Joseph? To Joseph, God “entrusted the care of his most precious treasures ”. Joseph is a village craftsman: he is a carpenter. Human labor, in especially manual labor, takes on a special emphasis in the Gospel. He...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday March 1 “Seeing that he preferred Joseph to them, his other sons hated him, and they could no longer speak to him without hostility. “(Gn 37,4) I love your advancement in solid piety, and this advancement requires difficulties, so that you may be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
A wonderful four part series about a Visitandine from Italy was published in an Italian newspaper this past month! You can read the original articles here as well as see the photos and pictures of the Sister and her surroundings: Part 1:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Dear friends- Guards of honor, Even though we are in Lent, a path of interior purification, the words of our foundress, written over a century and a half ago, once again resonate in a very particular way with our current affairs. Let us know how to read them in their...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What did you think about this great saint taking a moment to reflect in a letter on something so seemingly simple as pigeons eating food?2. St. Francis says that the pigeons were expressing an act of charity. Is this the same as an act of charity that we as humans...