by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
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 began with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
In word and deed, these two new Saint popes imitated St. Francis de Sales, and by doing so, imitated Christ, who shone through him! To prepare for Sunday’s chat, please read our article, “Bl. John XXIII, Bl. John Paul II & St Francis de Sales”.In our Living Jesus...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach
Referencing St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis de Sales shares that we appreciate beauty by knowing and seeing it, rather than by owning it. How does realizing beauty as something greater than ourselves point towards the author of beauty? With this criteria in mind, how...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
“You will catch more flies,” St. Francis used to say, “with a spoonful of honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar. Were there any thing better or fairer on earth than gentleness, Jesus Christ would have taught it us; and yet he has given us only...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Vocation news
At the Annunciation, God’s will was made known very clearly through Gabriel! Although our vocational callings are often more subtle, in what ways we can better open our ears – and hearts – to hear God’s will? Particularly in Lent, how can we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Mary’s “Yes” to her Vocation can Inspire us to Reply “Yes” to Ours Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership As we focus on our own vocations in life, let us remember the simple woman who responded perfectly to God’s call for her...