by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Charity is kind, but the world is unkind Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership We continue our series with Part IV, Chapter 1 “We must not trifle with the Words of Worldly Wisdom” from An Introduction to the Devout Life. Here Saint Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 20, 2017 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales often relates the concept of freedom to other themes such as: the good; grace, love, obedience, sin, the human will, and God’s activity. He often also makes mention of free will. “St. Francis de Sales does not speculate on freedom itself,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Jun 14, 1:03 PM VisitationSiste: Questions to Ponder: What do you make of the distinction between a “widow indeed” and a woman who is “widowed in externals”? Is Saint Francis diminishing the decision of widowed women who choose to move on to a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 17, 2017 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Mexican Mystic Mother Angelica Alvarez Icaza, Foundress of a Visitation Monastery, will lead us with her meditations, based on the Litany to the Sacred Heart, through June, the Month of the Sacred Heart. Day 30 Heart of Jesus, victim of sinners Hearing the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 12, 2017 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
For the 450th anniversary of the birth of François de Sales, the themes of the conferences relate to the life and work of Saint Francis de Sales When From 20/08/2017 to 27/08/2017 Basilica of the Visitation, Annecy, France PROGRAM Sunday 20 to Sunday 27 August 2017...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 12, 2017 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Questions to Ponder: The vocation to marriage necessarily calls into focus the procreative nature of marriage. How can marriage be procreative aside from the gift and fruitfulness of human life? Marriage has two ends: unitive and procreative (see Catechism 1601). What...