by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Discerning God’s Will When One’s Parents Object This week we read a story about the life of St. Francis de Sales based on Butler’s Lives of the Saints.We encounter St. Francis as a young priest, caught in the tension between the wishes of his father and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
St. Francis says that we should praise God if we lose a loved one, instead of grieving. Does this conflict with what we see when Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus (John 11:35)?How can we have hope in the grieving process if the person was far from God...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2023 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
Catholic media want to make their voices heard Mgr Jean Marc Micas, bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, presided over the opening mass of the 26th day of Saint François de Sales which took place in Lourdes from January 25 to 27. 230 representatives of the Catholic media of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
This Life Is Only a Passage to Eternity This week we read an article from St. Francis de Sales about embracing the loss of loved ones.This article is taken from a chapter in Consoling Thoughts on Eternity by St. Francis de Sales, which is published by TAN Books.To...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2023 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History
“On this day, the Son of God is offered to his Father, and in his very Temple. This offering is wonderfully represented to us by the ceremonies that are performed today in the Church, because the procession with the candles lit reminds us of that divine...