Oblates of St. Francis de Sales

New DeSales World Newsletter - Summer Edition

De Sales Spirituality Center

Espanol @ http://www.oblates.org/spirituality/es/"
The De Sales Spirituality Center is a ministry of the Wilmington-Philadelphia Province of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. The mission of the De Sales Spirituality Center, drawing upon the lives and legacies of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal, is to provide programs and publications that assist people who wish to pursue a practical path to holiness.

Salesian spirituality has been described as a down-to-earth path to holiness. The De Sales Spirituality Center provides people not only with food for thought, but food for living a God-centered and other-centered life here on earth.

The De Sales Spirituality Center offers days of recollection, retreats, missions and other programs to a wide variety of communities: schools, parishes, staffs, councils, boards and other groups looking for a spiritual framework in which to encourage people of all walks of life to live in ways that promote happiness, health and holiness. In addition, the De Sales Spirituality Center develops publications that help groups and individuals to embrace the ordinary, that is, to recognize the countless opportunities embedded in each day to serve God and others in love.

El Centro de Espiritualidad De Sales se enorgullece en inaugurar su nueva sección en Español, en un esfuerzo para proveer más recursos y materiales Salesianos a aquellas personas cuyo lenguage primario es el Español. (The De Sales Spirituality Center is delighted to inaugurate its new Spanish-language section in an effort to provide more Salesian resources and materials to those whose primary language is Spanish. Click on the link above to access this new section.)
Email Updates Provides visitors with an opportunity to receive a weekly email from the De Sales Spirituality Center.
Salesian Discipleship offers a collaborative model for establishing a Salesian Discipleship Team in your parish, school or other apostolate.
Daily with De Sales. Rev. Francis J. Klauder, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, first published a book entitled Every Day with St. Francis de Sales in 1985. Due to popular demand, Salesiana Publishers reprinted this great resource in 1997. Based on Fr. Klauder's book, Daily with De Sales contains a thought or saying from the writings of St. Francis de Sales for every day of the year, offered in a monthly format.
Retreats on the Run offers a simple way to make an "interior retreat" or a way to recollect yourself while on the go throughout the day.
Sundays Salesian offers a Salesian reflection on an aspect of the Sunday Scripture readings. Individual reflections are available for each week, as is a collection for several months of the present liturgical year.
Salesian Sunday Reflections are a series of Salesian reflections written by Pasqualina Young on the Sunday Lectionary.
Salesian Perspectives is a series of pamphlets that reflect upon the art and discipline of Christian living as seen through the lens of Salesian spirituality. Each pamphlet contains a short reflection on a particular topic followed by a series of questions. These pamphlets can be used by individuals and/or small faith/church groups.
Prayer of the Heart provides a specifically Salesian experience of meditating upon selected scenes from the life and passion of Jesus Christ.
De Sales Discussions provide easy-to-use discussion guides to be used in conjunction with a number of Salesian books available in English.
Salesian Seminars provide the same materials found in De Sales Discussions edited for use over a five-or-six-session meeting schedule.
Twelve-Step Resources offer simple Salesian resources that can be used in conjunction with other recovery materials.
Spiritual Directory provides several guides for living each day in a prayerful, positive and powerful way.
Online Resources provides a rich assortment of resources from the Salesian tradition that have practical applications for growing in holiness in the midst of life's responsibilities, circumstances and situations.
Online Retreats offer individuals to spend a day, a month or an entire year with the Salesian tradition.
The sections on Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal provide more information about the saints themselves.
About Us is information about the team of Oblates and lay people working together to help others to learn, live and share Salesian Spirituality.
Salesian Links provides links to other communities and resources of the Salesian tradition.