by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 10, 2013 | Events, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Click here to learn more and register: https://store.pauline.org/LandingPages/ClassicWisdom1hourRetreatswiththeSaints/tabid/205/Default.aspx Retreat Dates How to Put the Pieces of Life Together with St. Jane Frances de Chantal Monday, February 18, 6:30-7:30 pm EST...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Marriage is much in the news throughout the world these days. St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church, also guided souls with a deep understanding of the marital vocation. We share a series of posts from the Introduction to the Devout Life on the holiness of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Ash Wednesday is approaching- February 13th, 2013! If you are choosing a traditional way of living Lent by fasting, St. Francis has some advice for you. He suggested ways of fasting well. He said, “These first four days of the holy season of Lent serve as a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 28, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Topic of chat Sun: WHY SUFFERING? St Francis de Sales will help with his advice from the Treatise on the Love of God. http://visitationspirit.org/2013/01/st-francis-de-sales-and-suffering/ Car: Pope JP II wrote a beautiful letter on the christian meaning of suffering...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 25, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“When St. Monica was about to give birth to the great St. Augustine, she dedicated him by repeated acts of oblation to the Christian religion and the service of God’s glory. He testifies to this and says that “he had already tasted God’s salt...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
WHY SUFFERING? Last Sunday’s chat left us with a question which we will take up on Sunday January 27th’s chat: namely WHY SUFFERING? This is a great mystery ameliorated only by the fact that Our Lord Himself suffered, and greatly. St Francis de Sales offers...