by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Dear friends- Guards of honor, Even though we are in Lent, a path of interior purification, the words of our foundress, written over a century and a half ago, once again resonate in a very particular way with our current affairs. Let us know how to read them in their...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
What did you think about this great saint taking a moment to reflect in a letter on something so seemingly simple as pigeons eating food?2. St. Francis says that the pigeons were expressing an act of charity. Is this the same as an act of charity that we as humans...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Monday February 22 Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God! “(Mt 16:16) Our souls must give birth, not outside of themselves but in themselves, to a male child, the sweetest, most gracious and beautiful that can be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2021 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
with St. Francis de Sales Wednesday February 17 “Give me back the joy of being saved; may the generous spirit support me. “(Ps 50:14) He who longs will love ardently. My God Theotimas! who will give us the grace to burn with this desire, which is the desire of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 10, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St Francis emphasizes that we should not desire and ask for temptations and struggles to help us grow in holiness. Why not?2. Why is complaining about our miseries more an act of rebellion rather than impatience, as St. Francis describes?3. How can we get in the habit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Year of Consecrated Life
Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2020) In today’s Gospel we experience Mary and Joseph presenting the infant Jesus, the son of God, in the Temple. St. Francis de Sales notes: The Eastern Rite calls this feast the “Presentation of the Son of God in the Temple,”...