by Sister Susan Marie | May 18, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
We Must Endure the Pain While God Tears Away the Old Man ,This article is taken from a chapter in Consoling Thoughts on Trials of An Interior Life by St. Francis de Sales which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 22, 2023 | Events, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
The news is just in! The Visitation Order of Holy Mary will be celebrating the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary, December 2023-June 2025! Bishop, Mgr Benoît Rivière of Auton has decreed a Great Jubilee for commemorate the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 10, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday “On the morning of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary left the tomb trembling and joyful… They ran to carry the new … Mt28:8… From a sermon by St. Francis de Sales. (Works IX 171-336) The poor Saint Magdeleine,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Source: Lent with Saint Francis de Sales – The Visitation of Saint Mary of Annecy (visitationannecy.org) Monday “Mary took a pound of a very pure fragrance and poured it on the feet of Jesus”Jn 12:1 From a Sermon by St. Francis de Sales (Works...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis leads with the ubiquitous: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” How can we defend this in the light of suffering? Are we supposed to allow misfortune merely at the prospect of “at least we’ll be in heaven...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“And if you are told something, you will answer, ‘The Lord needs it.'”Mt 21:3 From a sermon by St. Francis de Sales. Works IX, 34 Our Saviour, therefore, wishing to have ridden on a donkey to enter Jerusalem, said to two of his Apostles: Go to...