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28th International St Francis de Sales Conference in Rome

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...

Visitation memories in January

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...

On the Holy Family

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...

History of the Visitation Order Continued

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...