by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 28, 2016 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Our new weekly series will consist of excerpts of a book called An Abridgement of the Interior Spirit of the Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary to assist those discerning a vocation to our way of life, or others interested in growing in their inner spiritual...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 21, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Remember, the meditations that follow this reflection will come in our next installments of newsletters/chat topics. Until then, what do you think some of the topics will be that St. Francis de Sales feels are necessary to be meditated upon in order to help us uproot...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2016 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
From March 20, 1622 Humility and Obedience Everything in the world has two faces, because everything has two principles. The first is God, the first cause of everything that exists. The second is the nothingness from which everything has been drawn. Now,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Solemnity of the Foster Father of Jesus, St. Joseph. The Treatise on the Love of God Book 7, Chapter 13, of St Francis de Sales, says this of the great Patron of the Church and of the Visitation Order: “One can hardly well doubt that the great S....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 15, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
How Do We Bring About Purification? Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about the importance of uprooting sin and temptation. We continue with Part I, Chapter 8: “How to Effect This Second Purification” from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more. “(Jn 8:11) This Gospel passage which we just heard over the weekend is echoed in the words of St. Francis de Sales: “The woman caught in adultery was brought to our Lord ashamed, full of fear, head down;...