by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis talks about keeping our eyes fixed on God while suffering affliction. How do we discern when to simply accept the affliction out of filial love for our Father or when to seek help? In other words, how do we discern if God’s will is to simply accept...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 24, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality
The triduum of the Visitation is the “21st century” formula of the traditional Salesian Week. The Visitation Nuns and the diocese of Annecy decided to give it a new form …. and a new date! Here are three days of proposals around the feast of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 19, 2019 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
For their 400th anniversary, the Visitandines based in Paris are exhibiting in Moulins their rich heritage. A new collection that tells their story, but also their daily lives. It is in Moulins that the Visitandines of Paris chose to exhibit 400 years of history and...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 6, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis never ceases to lead us to discuss the heaviest topics. He mentions being so consumed by a present suffering that we are unable to grasp other realities. What does this mean? Is he saying it is a good thing or a bad thing?2. Saint Francis mentions the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 3, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“A less remarked facet of Francis’s thought on this Biblical mystery is his dual emphasis on the Redeemer in the womb as the primary actor in this mystery and on Mary’s active, continual,and creative participation and cooperation in this first...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 2, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Among the distinctive characteristics of Francis’s appreciation of the mystery of the Visitation are its integration, balance, and equilibrium-also hallmarks of his personality and thought as a whole. This balance is achieved by Francis’s...