by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 25, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
What does it mean to have a promise of God’s blessings? Is this synonymous with health and prosperity?St. Francis tells St. Jane to hold hope because “all will be well in the end.” Does this mean God simply expects us to endure pain and suffering...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
For several years we have been posting in September, aspects of the spiritual relationship of St Jane de Chantal and St Vincent de Paul. Now, we have discovered a treasure! Another group is also fascinated by this topic, so here is their presentation and many more...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 12, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
and Blessed Feast of St. Jane de Chantal! “Our Blessed Father had a perfect devotion to Our Lady and a tender love, accompanied by a filial trust. He called her his Lady, his Queen, his Mistress. When he preached his praises, on the days of his feasts, which he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“Once he (St. Francis de Sales) wrote to me: ‘When will we be all soggy in gentleness and suavity towards our neighbor? When will we see the souls of our neighbors in the sacred chest of the Savior? Alas! who looks at him out of there, he runs fortune to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
St. Francis de Sales “had a very special love for the Most Blessed Sacrament; it was his real life and his only strength. O God! what ardent and tasty devotion he had when he carried him to the processions! You would have seen him as a luminous cherub. He...
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...