by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 9, 2023 | LENT
“Peace be with you!”Christ is risen! Hallelujah! From a Sermon by St. Francis de Sales. April 12, 1594. Works VII, 167 The joy was undoubtedly great in Noah’s ark, when the dove, who had recently gone out as if to spy on the state in which the world...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Source: Lent with Saint Francis de Sales – The Visitation of Saint Mary of Annecy (visitationannecy.org) Monday “Mary took a pound of a very pure fragrance and poured it on the feet of Jesus”Jn 12:1 From a Sermon by St. Francis de Sales (Works...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“And if you are told something, you will answer, ‘The Lord needs it.'”Mt 21:3 From a sermon by St. Francis de Sales. Works IX, 34 Our Saviour, therefore, wishing to have ridden on a donkey to enter Jerusalem, said to two of his Apostles: Go to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2023 | LENT, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
A few months before the Foundation of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary! “March 19, 1619 Never surely had Annecy appeared so lovely to Madame de Chantal as it showed that spring evening of Palm Sunday towards the end of her journey. Above the town , the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2023 | LENT
of St Margaret Mary Source: carnet-de-careme-2017-vf-1-lg.pdf (sacrecoeur-paray.org) “ I presented my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those whopulled out my beard ” Is 50, 6 Jesus enters Jerusalem to save each of us: shall we say “I...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 1, 2023 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“The Chief Priests and Pharisees therefore convened the Great Council… So, Caiaphas, who was high priest this That year, says: You don’t understand anything, you don’t see what your Interest: It is better for one man to die for the people and...