by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
with St. Francis de Sales Wednesday February 17 “Give me back the joy of being saved; may the generous spirit support me. “(Ps 50:14) He who longs will love ardently. My God Theotimas! who will give us the grace to burn with this desire, which is the desire of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 10, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St Francis emphasizes that we should not desire and ask for temptations and struggles to help us grow in holiness. Why not?2. Why is complaining about our miseries more an act of rebellion rather than impatience, as St. Francis describes?3. How can we get in the habit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Year of Consecrated Life
Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2020) In today’s Gospel we experience Mary and Joseph presenting the infant Jesus, the son of God, in the Temple. St. Francis de Sales notes: The Eastern Rite calls this feast the “Presentation of the Son of God in the Temple,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
Anna Michelotti was born in Annecy in Haute-Savoie (at the time the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia), on 29 August 1843, the third child of Gian Michele Telesforo Michelotti, a Piedmontese emigrant from Almese and Pierina Mugnier-Serand from Annecy. She is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2021 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude La Colombière (Jesuit) near Lyon. February 15, 1682: Birth in Heaven of Saint Claude La Colombière. February 15, 1730: Birth in Heaven of Venerable Anne-Madeleine Rémuzat, Religious of the Visitation of Marseille. It...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2021 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Jesus tells us that he will recognize before his Father only those who have recognized and confessed him before men. Certainly, He knew that it would cost us a lot, that we would have to make this profession of faith in the face of a hostile and corrupt generation,...