by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
FREE ONLINE NON-CREDIT COURSE FOR LENT The Salesian Center for Faith & Culture at DeSales University is offering a free online non-credit course for spiritual enrichment. Lent 2019: A Time of Enlightenment & Reconnecting is now open. Self-registration is easy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Guard of Honor, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
Christian courage There reigns in the world a frightful disorder, impiety goes head high and vice spreads everywhere with an outrageous liberty. Yet Jesus reminds us of a basic duty of religious morality: Christian courage!Alas too often by our concessions and our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/02/19/st-francis-de-saless-solution-our-toxic-public-discourse?fbclid=IwAR2USr787XhQprhu9Xn1nFikjCUphDzfF-SX2fkkHk6iRYaQaDyJUGdGo7w
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A festive diocesan time praying at the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy for three days. Thursday, May 30: Ascension Day; Friday, May 31: Feast of the Visitation; conference, show. Saturday, June 1: Recollection followed by an evening and a night for young people....
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2019 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation Saints
Saint Claude was a man of the heart, endowed with enormous sensitivity towards his neighbor. Since childhood he had a profound inclination towards the family, thinking one day of being able to form his own and “horrible aversion” for religious life. He...