by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 8, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series from our Nantes Visitation Monastery about the holy Visitandines who lived there. This month we share the life of Sister Marie-Antoine Poyas. Juliet was born into a peasant family of Deux-Sèvres, 29 August 1883. As a widow, her mother took in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2015 | Events
The Arts Company presents A Trip to Annecy, a documentary photographic series by Anne Goetze, featuring the artist’s photographic memoir of Annecy, France – where she visited her Aunt Helen, who lived the contemplative life of an enclosed cloistered nun. In...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“The death and passion of our Lord is the sweetest and the most compelling motive that can animate our hearts in this mortal life…The children of the cross glory in this, their wondrous paradox which many do not understand: out of death, which devours all things, has...