by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
PM VisitationSiste: Looking at the example given of Simeon Stylites, is mortification of the heart a sign of spiritual maturity versus mortification of the body? Why is it so? Is it possible to have true mortification of the body without that of the heart? Or true...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2019 | Events, Photos & videos, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
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by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
«We are an underground aqueduct, which invisibly brings water to the thirsty». To speak, behind a wrought-iron grating, are the cloistered nuns of the Order of the Visitation. Their monastery is on the hills of Brescia, hidden among the ash trees of Costalunga, two...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Holy Spirit’s “Violence” is Gentle, Sweet and Peaceful This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 12, “Of The Union Of Man’s Will With God’s In Those Inspirations...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Should we aspire to the extraordinary practice of the ordinary exercises? Or should this only be something we are inspired (by God) to do? St. Francis de Sales mentions some unique examples of saints who lived this extraordinary perfection of ordinary exercises. But...