by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
He that is just let him be justified still This week we are moving into book three (“Of The Progress And Perfection Of Love.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “How Our Love of God Can Continue...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Repentance that does not reject love of God, although it may lack it, is good, but imperfect. But if it did not progress to a holy love of God in some degree, it would profit us nothing for everlasting life. When does repentance become penitence? What types of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
If we have not the holy love of God, all this would profit nothing for eternal life This week we are moving into the section from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Penitence and Charity” to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St John Bosco’s Feast is today, January 31st. Why is the congregation he founded named Salesians after St. Francis de Sales? The Visitation Order’s good friend, Father Joe Boenzi, SDB, explains it all in this article, below!...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
By His gift of faith, God comes into our souls, talks to our mind. He proposes truths in darkness, in obscurity. But once this divine brightness of faith comes down upon the mind, it compels the obedience of the intellect without any show of reasoning or argument....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2018 | Events, Photos & videos, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
This week, La Foi prise au mot (Faith at your word )invites you to discover a high figure of the 17th century: Saint Francis de Sales. What is often said is quite brief. Born in Savoy in 1567, he became bishop of Annecy, challenged the Protestants and died after...