by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2014 | Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales’ sermon for a Religious Profession on the Feast of the Annunciation of 1621 highlights the beauty of the call of God to the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose vocation became so clear on that day. St Francis quotes the Song of Songs,” Let Him...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 21, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sunday March 23 The Blessed Savior might let his blood drop on the ashes of the original sinner Adam and that we might know his sin was cleansed when it was nailed to the Cross. Monday March 24 Consider the Savior raised and extended on the Cross. O supreme love of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Living Lent Interiorly Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership As St. Augustine wrote: “Re-enter your heart! Where do you want to go, far from yourself? Re-enter from your wandering which has led you outside the way; return to the Lord. He is quick. First...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 18, 2014 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
V+J Authenticity seems to be a much pursued characteristic of our times. But as Father Raniero Cantalemessa, Capuchin, remarks in his recent Lenten sermon, it depends on a deep interior life. Visitandines, and Salesians of every type know that our Founder and Patron,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2014 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
V+J Sunday March 16 “Consider that the Eternal Father has so loved the world that He has given to it His only Son; and the Son has so loved the will of His Father, that seeing Him desirous of saving human nature, without heeding the meanness and indignity of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Living Lent with St. Francis de Sales-Charity A key element in our Lenten practices is almsgiving or other forms of charity. St. Francis de Sales expounds on this foundational aspect of our Christian lives. He said, ” Our Divine Master gave us His life not only to...