by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 15, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales
” Now it is that we are to show an invincible courage towards our Savior, serving him purely for the love of his will, not only without pleasure, but amid this deluge of sorrows, horrors, distresses and assaults, as did his glorious Mother and St. John upon the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 7, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales
September 8th is the Feast of the Nativity of Mary. St. Francis de Sales gave a powerful homily on this Feast in 1620! Read excerpts here: http://tomperna.org/tag/st-francis-de-sales/
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Pope Francis has declared today, September 1st, as an annual day of prayer, penance and thanksgiving for creation. In his Treatise on the Love of God, our Founder, St Francis de Sales wrote in Book, 2, Chapter 2: God spoke but one word, and in virtue of that in a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales had an “Augustinian cast of mind”, it has been said. Certainly he respected this great doctor of the Church and chose the Rule of St. Augustine for the Visitation Order that he founded with St Jane de Chantal. That is why we call St...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 27, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
It is well known among Visitandines that St. Augustine, whose monastic rule for religious life we follow, is often called our”grandfather” as our Holy Father, St. Francis de Sales, chose St Augustine as a model for our community living. So, therefore our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 25, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of St. Louis. Our Founder, St Francis de Sales, said of him “S. Louis, a monarch unrivaled in time of peace or war, who was most diligent in the administration of justice and in ruling his country, nevertheless was wont to hear two masses...