by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 29, 2017 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Can a woman forget her infant, have no more tenderness for the child of her womb? Even if she forget, I will not forget you. (Isaiah 49:15) Let the world scold it as long as it pleases against me alone, it does not make me hot (it does not matter to me) since...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 29, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Our idle words are a sharp weapon against our neighbor’s heart Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about our impure words. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 27 “Unseemly Words, and the Respect Due...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 27, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
SrSusan (: At the end here Saint Francis touches upon the age-old tension between a person’s outward pious practices and the disposition of the heart. How might this connect when in Matthew 9:13 Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6: “I desire mercy, not...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Your lips should be ever sweetened with your God Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about our words. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 26: “Conversation; and, First, How to Speak of God” from An...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2017 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Daughters of Saint Francis de Sales, the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales are happy to invite you to celebrate their patron saint. We are organizing a day to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of St...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Here’s the first 2 questions Saint Francis focuses heavily on modesty in this reflection. How might his understanding of modesty have a greater depth to our use of the term today, where we normally equate modesty strictly with not exposing one’s body? How does...