by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
TO ST JANE DE CHANTAL Letter DCCX (Complete Works of St. Francis de Sales) You will be the first, my very dear and very good mother, who will receive from my writings a letter this new year. Reason certainly wants it, that after paying homage to the heavenly Father...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 30, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the distinction between godly sorrow and worldly sorrow? Why are we called to rejoice in suffering as Christians? Where do we see this throughout Scripture? Does St. Francis give a fair overview of sadness in this chapter? Does he take into account mental...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 29, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“ MEDIA AND PROXIMITY ” January 22-24, 2020 The question of proximity with our audiences and with the field has not stopped haunting the debate on the media and especially within our Catholic media for whom this dimension has always been crucial and nourishing. It...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 28, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
L’Amour s’est fait Coeur Conférence de M. Marie-Thérèse Dennel sur l’Année Jubilaire de Sainte Marguerite-Marie...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 27, 2019 | Advent, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
And greetings from Visitation Monastery, Santiago. “Behold, I wake up to offer the Child, who is born in a poor portal for my love, my soul, my heart and all my senses. But I hear him crying because of the rigor of the cold between us … Oh, what a pity, my...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 25, 2019 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality
Perfect Confidence by Sister Mary Berchmans Hannan, VHM, ’48 & ’50, Mother Superior and President Emerita, Georgetown A picture of my two young grandnephews, sitting on the top stair of their home in their Christmas pajamas, with looks of joyous...