by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 1, 2020 | Events, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation Outreach
January 24, 2020- Feast of St. Francis de Sales Attend Mass at any of the Visitation Monasteries and receive special grace and a plenary indulgence during our Jubilee Year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the canonization of our Sister, St. Margaret...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
TO ST JANE DE CHANTAL Letter DCCX (Complete Works of St. Francis de Sales) You will be the first, my very dear and very good mother, who will receive from my writings a letter this new year. Reason certainly wants it, that after paying homage to the heavenly Father...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 30, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What is the distinction between godly sorrow and worldly sorrow? Why are we called to rejoice in suffering as Christians? Where do we see this throughout Scripture? Does St. Francis give a fair overview of sadness in this chapter? Does he take into account mental...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 29, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“ MEDIA AND PROXIMITY ” January 22-24, 2020 The question of proximity with our audiences and with the field has not stopped haunting the debate on the media and especially within our Catholic media for whom this dimension has always been crucial and nourishing. It...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 23, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There is a war raging inside us between divine love and self-love. How do we allow divine love to win out in our lives? Why do you think we are so prone to self-love? How can we surrender more of our will and passions to God’s will and good pleasure? Why with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 9, 2019 | St. Francis de Sales
“At the appointed time, the torrent of original sin began to roll its fatal waves over the conception of this holy woman. But just when the torrent had reached that certain point, it did not pass beyond it but was stopped…In this way, God turned all captivity away...