by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
«We are an underground aqueduct, which invisibly brings water to the thirsty». To speak, behind a wrought-iron grating, are the cloistered nuns of the Order of the Visitation. Their monastery is on the hills of Brescia, hidden among the ash trees of Costalunga, two...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Holy Spirit’s “Violence” is Gentle, Sweet and Peaceful This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 12, “Of The Union Of Man’s Will With God’s In Those Inspirations...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 17, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Inspirations for Ordinary Exercises, Practiced with Extraordinary Perfection This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 11, “Of The Union Of Our Will With God’s In The Inspirations Which Are...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 15, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis uses the analogy of heat and light to describe inspiration, describing the winter as those times that we are not receiving inspirations as readily. These types of analogies tend to make it seem as if these times are negative. Is that the case? Why does...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 12, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
How our souls can become spouses of his well-beloved Son This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book 8, chapter 10. “How We Are To Conform Ourselves To God’s Will Signified Unto Us By Inspirations, And...