by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 16, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis points out that God has no need of us (as if God lacks something), instead He created us to share in His goodness. However, after the resurrection, Jesus tells his disciples to spread the gospel, almost as if God is allowing...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 14, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
Today we celebrate the feast of the Visitation. Of course, we pray for our Sisters of the Visitation, especially for Sister Marie-Angélique, who is celebrating the jubilee of her religious consecration. It is also the entry into the Triduum of the Visitation. Every...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 1, 2024 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History
1er Friday in the month of June, 1674 Our Lord Jesus Christ, during what is called the 2ndTh great apparition, asks Saint Margaret Mary (nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial) for the communion of reparation of the 1ster Friday of each month and...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St Francis de Sales said of this biblical event, the Visitation: “Do you not think that what most particularly prompted our glorious Mistress to make this visit was her most ardent charity and a very profound humility which enabled her to pass with such speed...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
As the Eucharistic procession makes its way across our nation this weekend, let us take a look at St Francis de Sales relationship to this Blessed Sacrament. Francis received his First Communion and Confirmation at the age of about nine. From then on he received...
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...