by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 19, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In this age of the New Evangelization, how do we encounter people where they are at and follow this advice from St. Francis: “Avoid the society of persons who are wanting in purity, especially if they are bold, as indeed impure people always are”? What is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 17, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We conclude our Advent series with the meditative thoughts of St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. Sunday When the world had reached the high point of its wickedness, God came to redeem us and deliver us from the tyranny of sin and the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 15, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
There are things which blemish perfect purity, without being in themselves downright acts of impurity Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about maintining purity. We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 13: “How to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 10, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our Advent series with thoughts by St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. Sunday What is the Incarnation? It is what we call the hypostatic union, the union of the human nature with the divine, a union so close that although there are...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 7, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our series with Part III, Chapter 12: “Purity” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Purity is the lily among virtues–by it men approach to the Angels. There is no beauty without purity, and human purity is chastity. We speak of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 4, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We continue our Advent series with thoughts by St. Francis de Sales on the Incarnation, from his sermons. This week we focus on Blessed Mother and her unique role in the Incarnation of her Son. Sunday “At the moment the glorious Virgin gave her consent,the Holy...