by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2022 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
CLEMENTINE BEAUVAIS, THE FEATHER AND THE SAINT INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 28, 2021Clementine Beauvais_03 According to family legend, Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque is a very distant relative of this successful writer, teacher-researcher at the University of York. During an...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2022 | Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
When God Calls Introduction For several years, the Bishop of Geneva has dreamed of founding a religious congregation. His intuitions are clear: to be able to welcome women who, because of their health or their age, would not be welcomed into a more austere...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 23, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
How can we find more hope in the loss of a loved one? What about for someone who did not die in the faith? How can we be more supportive (and encouraging) of those who choose a vocation that requires them to leave us? St. Francis wrote...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 22, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality
The Holy Spirit gives us the peace of God Peace is one of the most important words in the Bible and in Christianity. significant. The whole Mass is punctuated by this word: “Peace on earth to men of good will”, “peace be with you”; “go to...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 16, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The texts of the Sixth Sunday of Easter reveal to us the face of the Church, a Church capable of universality in his mission: Paul and Barnabas brought back all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the nations. The faith ! St Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 6, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
in Annecy: We have arrived in May. On the 1st, we celebrated St Joseph, worker. The Book of Hours says: “Work is joy and pain, it is service to the community and approach to God: this is what we learn at the school of Nazareth. And in Constitution 16: “How good it is...