by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
“Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”(Mt 28:16-20) Sermon, May 21, 1595 (Works of St. Francis de Sales, VII, 255) Today the Church celebrates a great solemnity to the glory of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 19, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, and poured out on the apostles. For us Christians, it is the incredible discovery of a new force, that of the Spirit of God, given in superabundance at baptism. The Spirit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Of the 240 homilies and sermons of St. Francis de Sales, more than twenty are in fact dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in which he extols the virtues of our “valiant captainess,” as he calls her in his Sermon for the Annunciation of March 25, 1621....
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
by Conférence Sr Maria Theresia (translated) I especially love these three little virtues: gentleness of heart, poverty of spirit and simplicity of life. » (EA, XIII, p. 92) SIMPLICITY… PURELY CHRISTIAN VIRTUE “This virtue is purely Christian, because the pagans, even...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
with St Francis de Sales “Thomas said, ‘If I don’t put my hand in his side, I won’t believe!'”John 20:19-31 Sermon of St. Francis de Sales, 21 Dec. 1622 (Works X, 409) St. Thomas committed the great sin of infidelity; When the other...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Père Olivier BARNAY + Directeur national (France) de la Garde d’Honneur Homily for the Solemnity of St Francis de Sales (Patron Saint of the Guard of Honor) Monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, January 24, 2024. “Prayer, this immersion of the soul in the...