by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 28, 2016 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Our new weekly series will consist of excerpts of a book called An Abridgement of the Interior Spirit of the Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary to assist those discerning a vocation to our way of life, or others interested in growing in their inner spiritual...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2016 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught complete abandonment to the Father when He was on the Cross. This Holy Week we will once again hear His cry “My God, My God, why Have You abandoned Me?” Visitandine Mother Ponnet sheds light on this act of abandonment for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality
Book 7, Chapter 14,Treatise on the Love of God: “In the sacred Virgin, everything favored and seconded the course of heavenly love; its progress and increase were incomparably greater than in all other creatures, yet a progress infinitely sweet, peaceful and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 21, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Remember, the meditations that follow this reflection will come in our next installments of newsletters/chat topics. Until then, what do you think some of the topics will be that St. Francis de Sales feels are necessary to be meditated upon in order to help us uproot...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2016 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
From March 20, 1622 Humility and Obedience Everything in the world has two faces, because everything has two principles. The first is God, the first cause of everything that exists. The second is the nothingness from which everything has been drawn. Now,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Solemnity of the Foster Father of Jesus, St. Joseph. The Treatise on the Love of God Book 7, Chapter 13, of St Francis de Sales, says this of the great Patron of the Church and of the Visitation Order: “One can hardly well doubt that the great S....