by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 25, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales
Sun Chat Jan 24: The connection with Francis de Sales and our contemporary political situation is important. With the celebration of the feast day of St. Francis (January 24), how can we not just commemorate his saintly life, but live a life inspired by him so that...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2016 | Events
This website’s posts will be on hiatus from Jan 26-Feb 6 while we are in Rome for the closing of the Year of Consecrated Life. We will return with stories for you, we do hope!!
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2016 | St. Francis de Sales
Visitandines around the world celebrate our Holy Founder’s Feast today, even as it falls on a Sunday! In the USA both Brooklyn and Washington Visitation communities are snowbound but blessed at least to have had Mass this holy Day. We pray for each of you and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 23, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
On this day when St Francis was nearly 5, St Jane de Chantal was born in Dijon, in 1572. In 1618 on this day, St Francis assisted at the death of his confessor, Father Phillip of Quoex, who was saintly and visited by his guardian Ange. The confessor said of St Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 22, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
On January 22, 1605, St Francis de Sales, recovering from a series of illnesses, wrote to the Baroness de Chantal that he sent her a thousand blessings and that he would resume his regular correspondence with her as soon as he was able. At this time the Baroness was...