by Sister Susan Marie | May 1, 2013 | St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, and as we begin the month of May, we also honor our Blessed Mother in special ways throughout the next 4 weeks. What many virtues they can teach us! St. Francis de Sales highlights the example of this most holy couple by...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
So, you are close to making your decision about your vocation, or you have just said Yes to the Lord! Or, you have just entered upon your Formation Program and are overwhelmed by the call to holiness! Strength at first fills you, but then waves of doubt begin to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Sun April 28th chat: Struggling with temptation? Let St Francis de Sales help!How does St. Francis’s suggestions expand your capacity to love God and ignore temptation? : http://visitationspirit.org/2013/04/struggling-with-temptation-let-st-francis-de-sales-help/ ...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 24, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Here is an important hint for Holy Living in the Salesian Tradition: Live in The Present Moment: St. Francis de Sales offers us this helpful advice: “Leave the past to God’s mercy, the future to his Divine Providence and embrace the present willingly and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Struggle with temptation? Who doesn’t? Even Our Lord Jesus was tempted, yet never sinned. But our choices are more at risk, so we need to find ways to shore up our decisions in times of stress, vulverability and temptation. St. Francis de Sales has much to say...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 22, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Many people today are living with a high degree of anxiety. The tragedy at the Boston Marathon increased the general inner unrest that citizens feel already due to heart-rending public and private situations. St. Francis de Sales also lived in a time of serious...