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...
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...