by Sister Susan Marie | May 7, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Only True Love Can Bring True Joy Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about love that leads to joy. Jesus taught us about a type of love that is very different from the love we often experience in the world. By His words and by His deeds, He showed us how the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 6, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Mary, the “Lowly Servant”, is Pleasing to the Father Happy month of Mary! The practice of this specific month of Marian devotion and May crowning is believed to have been practiced since the 17th century, although devotion to the Blessed Mother...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 5, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series about the saintly Sisters of the Nantes, France Visitation Monastery. Yvonne Justeau was born in 1883. In 1886,her father, Mr. Justeau had to go his properties in the colonies, leaving Yvonne age 3 and her younger brother Lucien to maternal...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 4, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
There are sins of omission, the things we should have done but did not do. This also teaches us that a good intention is not enough. We must have actions that correspond to our good intentions. How can we gather the strength to be “justified by works and not by...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Saint Francis and Saint Anselm use the word “condescension.” In our modern usage of the word, it usually carries a negative connotation. However, the ultimate meaning of the word is found in God’s actions: By means of the Incarnation God condescended...