Finding True Healing

"We accuse our neighbor for so little, and we excuse ourselves for so much."

- Saint Francis de Sales

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Provincial’s Reflection

Father Jack Kolodziej, OSFS

This past week, we celebrated Saint Luke's feast day. As I remembered a great saint and an evangelist, I also recalled his first calling as a wounded healer. The life of Luke and his conversion is an example for all of us... Read More

Salesian Reflection

United Nations Day

Father Michael Vannicola, OSFS

My Oblate mentor inspired me to be an Oblate after teaching me in the spirit of Saint Francis de Sales that I too could be a minister of peace…

Meet Father John!

Father John Kasper, OSFS, is a senior religious and member of the Toledo-Detroit Provincial Council. Native of Toledo, Ohio, and a 1967 graduate of St. Francis de Sales School, Father John’s ministry in parochial leadership has spanned the country.

Learn more about Father John here!

Elisabeth Showalter, a Mathematics Teacher at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, DC, reflects on Saint Francis de Sales' words, and how what Francis promises is much more powerful than her childhood dreams!

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