by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 1, 2024 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History
1er Friday in the month of June, 1674 Our Lord Jesus Christ, during what is called the 2ndTh great apparition, asks Saint Margaret Mary (nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial) for the communion of reparation of the 1ster Friday of each month and...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 27, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St Francis de Sales said of this biblical event, the Visitation: “Do you not think that what most particularly prompted our glorious Mistress to make this visit was her most ardent charity and a very profound humility which enabled her to pass with such speed...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
As the Eucharistic procession makes its way across our nation this weekend, let us take a look at St Francis de Sales relationship to this Blessed Sacrament. Francis received his First Communion and Confirmation at the age of about nine. From then on he received...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
“Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”(Mt 28:16-20) Sermon, May 21, 1595 (Works of St. Francis de Sales, VII, 255) Today the Church celebrates a great solemnity to the glory of the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 19, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, and poured out on the apostles. For us Christians, it is the incredible discovery of a new force, that of the Spirit of God, given in superabundance at baptism. The Spirit...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Of the 240 homilies and sermons of St. Francis de Sales, more than twenty are in fact dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in which he extols the virtues of our “valiant captainess,” as he calls her in his Sermon for the Annunciation of March 25, 1621....