by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 9, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
What danger lies in giving way to scrupulosity?What can we do to avoid scrupulosity?Though God asks much of us, what does it mean to entrust everything to his hands?Why is it important to not be overly concerned with our successes and whether we fully...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2021 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
March 5, 1604: Saint Françis de Sales preaches Lent in Dijon and meets the Baroness de Chantal there. It is the start of one of the most beautiful spiritual friendships in the history of the Church. He will be able to say later: “The Visitation is the fruit of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
by the Superior of Annecy Visitation Who is Joseph? To Joseph, God “entrusted the care of his most precious treasures ”. Joseph is a village craftsman: he is a carpenter. Human labor, in especially manual labor, takes on a special emphasis in the Gospel. He...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday March 1 “Seeing that he preferred Joseph to them, his other sons hated him, and they could no longer speak to him without hostility. “(Gn 37,4) I love your advancement in solid piety, and this advancement requires difficulties, so that you may be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What did you think about this great saint taking a moment to reflect in a letter on something so seemingly simple as pigeons eating food?2. St. Francis says that the pigeons were expressing an act of charity. Is this the same as an act of charity that we as humans...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday February 22 Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God! “(Mt 16:16) Our souls must give birth, not outside of themselves but in themselves, to a male child, the sweetest, most gracious and beautiful that can be...