by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 10, 2012 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales wrote sound advice about the ways we can discern a vocation to the consecrated life and cautioned us about imperfect tools of discernment. As Founder of the Visitation Order, he spoke to the early Visitandines about vocations, “If we desire...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 7, 2012 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales, the Founder of the Visitation Order, had very definite ideas about the way God works with women to draw them into religious life, and he shared his profound thoughts with the first community of Visitation Nuns in Annecy, France. If you have ever...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 4, 2012 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
The Founder of the Visitation Order, St. Francis de Sales, wrote in depth on the spiritual benefits resulting from a retreat, a time set apart for God. In his Treatise on the Love of God, St. Francis de Sales wrote: ” The motive of divine charity pours forth an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The freedom of the United States was won originally by those who held high ideals of liberty and justice. Ideals may be grounded in virtues. St. Francis de Sales was a proponent of growth in virtuous living. Therefore, “it is not surprising that a Salesian view...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2012 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Fr. Eunan McDonnell, in his book on The Concept of Freedom in the Writings of St. Francis De Sales probes into the deeper elements of freedom. He says, “There is a true freedom and an illusory freedom. The choice of the true good produces a good action that is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 23, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Bishop St. Francis de Sales, although an episcopal ancestor by more than 400 years, seems to have spiritual synchronicity with episcopal teachings today. The USCCB’s published reflections for the Fortnight for Freedom for the Third Day, today, June 23, are as...