by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 24, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
International, national and personal circumstances in our lives often cause us to respond with anxious hearts. How can we learn to reduce this condition within ourselves? St. Francis de Sales has some advice. He said, ” This unresting anxiety is the greatest...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 15, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Live+Jesus We are pleased to announce as members of the Salesian Family that Father Joe Boenzi SDB’s book, St. Francis de Sales, Life and Spirit, will be presented by Father Francis J Maloney, SDB, on Wednesday October 2, 2013 at 730PM in Berkeley California....
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 13, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality
HOLLOW PLACE Find him in the hollow place the hollow cave the ancient tree the swaying reed waiting for the wind the echo hidden in the hills. Find him find him in the hollow of your heart the hollow of your hands and touch his face. by Sister Peronne Marie Thibert...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 11, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
by Melissa A 2nd Monday night gathering of Salesian friends. Dear Friends, We are looking ahead with excitement to a new season of SALESIAN 2nd MONDAY EVENINGS. This is a lively gathering of Visitation Sisters, Neighbors, Visitation Companions and friends for a light...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Carmela Aprile We have a most unique story to unfold about this contemporary mystic, her relationships to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Visitation Monastery of Rosolini! Here is a woman, born in 1878 in poverty, widowed young, who buys an image of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
While Labor Day did not exist in St Francis de Sales time or culture, he did have thoughts about the tradition of work, and wrote about it in several of his writings. Here we quote from his Treatise on the Love of God. Perhaps these words can provide a meditation for...