by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 20, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The Sweet and Gentle Struggle: Francis de Sales onthe Necessity of Spiritual Friendship Terence A. McGoldrickProvidence College The Sweet and Gentle Struggle: Francis de Sales on the Necessity of Spiritual Friendship (2014 eBook Version)...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 6, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Glory and the Cross – The Transfiguration, located between two announcements by Jesus of his approaching Passion, takes place on a high mountain before Peter, James and John, the Apostles whom we will find in agony in Gethsemane. We sense a link between the glory...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 26, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Joys and sorrows of our holy Founder The work of reforming the priory of Talloires weighed heavily on his arms for a long time. He would have liked to install the Feuillants (reformed Cistercians) there, but the Abbot of Savigny, on whom the priory depended, opposed...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 24, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Treatise on the Love of God Our holy Founder is constantly interrupted in the writing of his work, which puts our holy Mother in difficulty, she said to him (Correspondence I Letter n°21): “I am greatly mortified when I know that you are being diverted to write in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 23, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Some memories of the Sisters during these childhood years of our Institute. The community had welcomed a very simple young person, Claude Fardel, out of charity. At the time, an old building was being demolished and she had been tasked with collecting tiles. As the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 22, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
An extract from the preface to volume XXV of the Works of our holy Founder will serve as an introduction: “The love of God is the distinctive character of Saint Francis de Sales; but there also lies the originality of his works (…). From its birth, the Visitation...