by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“What,” he said to me in Lyon, “that could shake our peace? Certainly, when everything turns upside down, I will not be disturbed; for what is everyone worth together, in comparison to the peace of heart? This firmness proceeded, it seems to me, from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal
These reflections are taken from a talk by Mother Anne Marie Babin VHM, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Annecy, France in the 1860’s. Day one- Wed August 3 “Look and do according to the model which has been shown you. Does it not seem that Our Lord...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“I have clearly recognized, conferring with our Blessed, that he has received from God a tasty, tender and constant love for the goods promised to us in the other life, which I have known that he hoped with humble confidence in God’s mercy and in the merit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
2nd day- Will of God “He (Saint Francis de Sales) animated all his actions from the sole motive of divine good pleasure; and truly, as it is said in the sacred book, he asked “neither heaven nor earth to see the will of God accomplished.” How many times...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“According to my judgment, it seems to me that the zeal for the salvation of souls was the dominant virtue in our Blessed Father; for, in a way, you would sometimes have said that he left the service that immediately looks to God, to prefer that of one’s...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
This Jubilee Year for the IV Centenary of the entry into the Life of Saint Francis de Sales (28 December 1622) began with the 450th anniversary of the birth of Saint Jeanne de Chantal (23 January 1572). It has been rightly said that the perfect historian of a saint...