by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Salesian Spirituality is profoundly relational; it recognizes that spiritual progress comes in and through relationships. It is in the way human persons love one another that Jesus can be seen walking the face of the earth again. The way a person is with others is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Salesian tradition values doing the little things in the midst of ordinary and busy lives. In a very real sense, the person lives Jesus by “doing all ordinary things in an extraordinary way.” The Scriptural basis for this value is, “Come to me...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 7, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Salesian Spirituality is founded on the belief that all people are created in God’s image and likeness. Recognizing this, there is the challenge to treat each human person with respect, even reverence. For St Francis, this dignity supercedes all other facets of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 6, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales defines love as an active union of human will with the Divine. This love is imitative of Jesus’ love for his Father. St. Francis says that the Christian lives between the “two wills of God”: God’s will to be done,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 3, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In the Salesian tradition there is the daily practice of preparing for the day. This is another element that grew from the “Rule of Life” St. Francis de Sales established for himself as a student in Padua. He began the day with this practice which he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 27, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Everyone desires fulfillment; at the most basic level of existence this is an expression of desire to love God. This desire may not be articulated in explicitly religious language, but fulfillment ultimately can be found only in love of God. St. Francis de Sales...