by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2020 | St. Francis de Sales
September 1 – World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. From early childhood itself, Francis cultivated a lively sense of God’s creation, and the beauty and goodness it manifested. “He was a keen observer of nature, His writings express his wonderment. Francis’...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
The faithIf our body lives on the food it assimilates, our soul, too, must live on a substance appropriate to the nobility of its nature, and that substance is faith. Faith must preside over all our judgments, inspire all our actions, dictate all our resolutions....
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2020 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
. How can we have a healthy focus on avoiding vice and growing in virtue without becoming scrupulous about sin and vice?2. Do you find it ironic that in order to avoid vice, we need to have a healthy focus on it (And not just ignore it or be in denial that it exists)?...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 29, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of the Passion, or Beheading of St John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus. St Francis de Sales remarks about this Saint: I have often thought what was the greatest mortification of all the Saints in whose lives I have come across, and after several...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 24, 2020 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
n spite of whatever efforts we make towards ecumenism, St. Francis reminds us of an important point that Protestants (and us) “remain in irreconcilable contradiction on the meaning of the words of institution of the Eucharist.” Why is this so important?...