by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 11, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach
Sun Mar 10 CHAT 730P est: During the Conclave let’s ask St Joseph for his help! Sister : Some discussion points for Sunday’s chat:1.What has St. Joseph meant to you in your Christian walk?2.How did St. Joseph guard the Holy Family and respond to the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2013 | Events, LENT, YEAR OF FAITH
We continue our series on St. Joseph and the Visitation this month by including the sentiments of the Cardinal of New York, now in Rome for the upcoming conclave,who is beginning a novena March 11 to St. Joseph for the new Holy Father. Read his article here:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 7, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
The latest issue of the ICSS Newsletter is a wonderful testament to Salesian scholars and the recently beatified Blessed Louis Brisson, OSFS, Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Full color photographs of the beatification ceremony in September 2012...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 7, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Devotion to St. Joseph is intrinsic to the Visitation Nuns. Foundress St. Jane de Chantal had a deep devotion to the earthly, fatherly protector of Jesus. She was encouraged in this devotion by co-founder St. Francis de Sales, who called on St. Joseph as the Patron of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sr. Mary de Sales Galerne VHM, did not have a long life, living only 37 years, from 1895 to 1932. But this French Visitation Nun managed to grow interiorly from a young person indifferent to religion in her early youth to one filled with profound spiritual wisdom,...