by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Lent is first and foremost about growing closer to God. In what ways do you allow the devil to squeeze a wedge between you and Jesus? Positively stated, in what ways can you grow closer to Jesus? This reflection can make us think of Luke 11:24-26 where Jesus tells...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
As the Church begins its process toward Visitation Sister Francoise Therese’s (Leonie Martin) beatification, many aspects of her life and devotion begin to be known. In addition, the deep relationship of the Carmelite and Visitation Orders in this Martin family...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
In a reflection entitled “Devils Big and Small”, Blessed Louis Brisson, OSFS observed: My children, we read in the Gospel (for the First Sunday of Lent) about the temptation of Our Lord in the desert. He willed to undergo temptations of various kinds – the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2015 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
V+J Ash Wednesday/Week 1 During Lent we will post thoughts, writings and sayings appropriate for Lent from various Visitandine Nuns, beginning with our Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal. She exhorted the Sisters, ” “My dear Sisters, I have but two words to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 16, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT
How can “formation of the heart” help us focus on Lent in a new way beyond giving up sweets and our favorite foods? In other words, how will you follow Pope Francis’ suggestion to embrace a “formation of the heart”? How might we use Lent...