by Sister Susan Marie | May 20, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, YEAR OF FAITH
This insightful article by Senior Salesian Scholar Father Alexander T. Pocetto, OSFS, PH.d, entitled Love and Belief, St Francis de Sales and the New Evangelization, will stir your intellectual and devotional faculties....
by Sister Susan Marie | May 14, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, YEAR OF FAITH
I’d like to reflect on the mystery of the Visitation and enter that mystery, in the here and now, by focusing on the Holy Spirit’s powerful engagement in the Visitation narrative. We’re asking the Spirit to act and move among us in a similar way to the Spirit’s action...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news, YEAR OF FAITH
We continue our “behind the scenes” visit to a Visitation Monastery Chapter Room where the Superior gives fervent little talks to her Sisters during Holy Week. Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM said,” This last week of Lent should bring us new...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2013 | Events, LENT, YEAR OF FAITH
We continue our series on St. Joseph and the Visitation this month by including the sentiments of the Cardinal of New York, now in Rome for the upcoming conclave,who is beginning a novena March 11 to St. Joseph for the new Holy Father. Read his article here:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM was Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Troyes, France in the 1800’s and encourager of Blessed Louis Brisson to found the Oblates of St Francis de Sales. She gave many deep talks to her Visitandine community. On one...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Blessed Louis Brisson OSFS, the Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was beatified on September 22, 2012. At his Beatification Mass, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Causes of Saints, said that “The Church needs holy priests like Blessed Louis...