Saint John Bosco

And so today is a chance just for our viewers and our listeners to get to know a little bit about us and what they can expect in this reading of the interior castle.

So Sister Elfie and I are Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco.

Our official title is Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.

We are a worldwide order, more than 10,000 sisters worldwide.

So why, Sister Elfie, would we say yes? You know, it's interesting.

Yes, when you told me about Let's Do This and Ascension is inviting us to do a little reflection on the interior castle, what a beautiful opportunity to honor a patron saint.

You know, St. John Bosco had picked St. Teresa of Avila to be our patron saint of being able to live contemplation and action fully.

Of course, Blessed Mother is the perfect model, right? And that's why we're called Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians.

And then we see it descending down in place, the new Jerusalem, right? In visions of saints like St.

Thomas Aquinas, John Bosco, St. Faustina, they all mention very similar things of what they saw when they saw heaven, which is indescribable, colors and colors that do not exist in this earthly life and they can only really kind of describe them as these different jewel tones that we experience here but it so it's probably again like in art it's like a insufficient explanation of what they're seeing you know like even thomas aquinas he saw heaven he saw jesus and he stopped writing this guy you know wrote the Summa.

Then he said it was like straw.

He's like, yeah, I'm done with this.

Their apparition, Brother Max Schenck, would only be allowed by God.

And we know that from St. John Bosco.

And there are other saints that have said that people that are suffering eternal damnation have appeared.

Another example would be not an apparition, but a return from the dead of Raymond Diocres, who was damned to hell.

My kids are, you know, my, my kids are in high school.

I have a, my son goes to San Juan Bosco right now.

And it's like, it's out there.

They're going to live their life.

Amen.

Quote from Saint John Bosco Put up willingly with the faults of others.

if you wish others to put up with yours.

Meditation of the Day, an excerpt from Manual for Spiritual Warfare by St. John Vianney, page 155 My dear brothers and sisters, not only is prayer very powerful, even more, it's of the utmost necessity for overcoming the enemies of our salvation.

Well, I like the fact that you use that word disciple.

That's why we call the approach to parenting that we advocate discipleship discipline because it's really based on the teaching method of St. John Bosco and focuses on teaching skills as opposed to just kind of punishing bad behavior.

And so where do you want to go with this? Um, I would suggest that you don't, that, that, you know, obviously it's not okay for him to storm around and slam doors in your face.

Um, but you don't want to get into an altercation about that.

And then eventually, as they get more language, you have them repeat that.

When we're teens, when we're adults, we still need to practice that because we need the same muscle memory so that it just works for us.

You know, what we're really describing here is the approach that St. John Bosco talked about where he said that there were three pillars for this, what we call discipleship discipline, which is reason, religion, and loving kindness.

And in this case, reason, religion, and loving kindness means approaching him with that kind of curiosity and compassion, not the kind of how dare you talk to me sort of thing.

Absolutely.

Saint Don Bosco, we ask you to intercede for those who work in Catholic education.

Grant many vocations to our Catholic schools and may the work we do in God's name bear much fruit.

Bless those in our schools with new hope, joy, energy and fortitude.

St.

Don Bosco, we ask you to intercede for those who work in Catholic education.

Grant many vocations to our Catholic schools, and may the work we do in God's name bear much fruit.

Bless those in our schools with new hope, joy, energy, and fortitude.