by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Given the definition of complacence, which actually means pleasing in this case, how do you define this kind of pleasing love? How does complacence, or pleasing love, become a transforming force in the soul making it like unto God? What is compassion, condolence,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2018 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior speaks ” Have the same sentiment as Jesus Christ’ is the exhortation of the Apostles to the faithful and it seems the Church cannot repeat it to often after them, during these holy days, in which the Church presents to us our Head,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 2, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Behold the immensity of goods which are in God This week we are moving into book five (“Of The Two Principal Exercises Of Holy Love Which Consist In Complacency And Benevolence.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2018 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News
March 5, 1604: Saint Francis de Sales preaches Lent in Dijon and meets the Baroness Chantal; it is the starting point of one of the most beautiful spiritual friendships in the history of the Church. He will be able to say: “The Visitation is the fruit of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2018 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
It was 155 years ago! ….. It was during Holy Week that our founder Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud had the revelation of the Guard of Honor. If the first dial, made following a revelation, was blessed on March 13, 1863 by the Superior, it is the evening...