by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 5, 2020 | Visitation Outreach
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by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Independence Day July 4, 2020 approaches for the USA in a year of suffering and turmoil. Our Holy Founder St Francis de Sales often encouraged us to have liberty of spirit. A talk given by French Bishop Benoit Riviere highlights this theme: “Freedom … is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 30, 2020 | Guard of Honor
Since the pandemic, the fear of illness and death have been presented to us as anxiety-provoking, almost abnormal events. We hide, we distance ourselves from each other, but illness and death are totally inherent in each life, nobody escapes! Not a single one of our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2020 | Discernment with DeSales
Though primarily St. Francis is writing to religious in these reflections, how can the non-consecrated benefit and learn from this practice of avoiding the attachments of “yours” and “mine”? In other words, how does this apply to members of a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
The Superior of Annecy, Mother Marie Therese, reflects on silence: Some excerpts: June 09, 2020In a commentary on the book of Job, entitled: “We have been made small in your midst “, St Gregory the Great said that … humility being the mistress of all...