by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 15, 2025 | St. Francis de Sales
The Holy Jubilee Year of 2025 is themed Pilgrims of Hope. As we prepare for the Feast of St Francis de Sales on January 24th, this novena will be taken from St Francis de Sales Conference on Hope. January 15 “AMONG the praises which the saints give to Abraham,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 12, 2025 | St. Francis de Sales
« There was a voice from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; in you I find my joy. Luke3:15-22 Sermons of 25 March 1622 and 17 Oct. 1620 (X 368 and VII 258) God the Father spoke to bear witness to this when Our Lord received baptism in the Jordan, for then...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 7, 2025 | Events, St. Francis de Sales
FOR JOURNALISTS JANUARY 23/26, 2025 what identity for what mission? An exceptional event requires an exceptional system! On the occasion of the Holy Year, the Federation of Catholic Media is associating its 28th International Meetings Saint Francis de Sales with the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
January 1587: After praying the “Remember” in front of the statue of Our Lady of Good Deliverance, Saint Francis de Sales is delivered from a deep mystical night. He was then a young student in Paris, where the question of predestination was being debated...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 29, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
by St Francis de Sales “See how your father and I have suffered in seeking you…”Luke 2:41-52 Some advice to the abbess of the Puits d’Orbe, in May 1605(Œuvres de St François de Sales, XXVI 229) Bad sadness disturbs the mind, agitates the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 16, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
1617 and 1618 1617 was a year marked for our holy Founders by painful personal trials, the difficulties in Moulins and those of the construction of the monastery continued, while the steps in Rome for the transformation of the Institute languished. Divine pedagogy...