by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 3, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How to Best Meditate on the Mysteries of the Life and Death of Our Savior For Sunday’s Living Jesus Chat, we will again read an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. It explores the importance of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2025 | Guard of Honor
August 2025 Peace and Happiness How inspired is the human heart when it turns resolutely to God! It knows, by faith, that God alone is its true rest. Trials of every kind: illness, poverty, humiliation, even death, may arise, but nothing troubles the one who has...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2025 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Sacred Heart, Visitation History
Final chapter Here we conclude the life of our foundress: Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, born exactly 200 years ago, on October 28, she entered eternal life on August 3, 1903. A discreet figure who lived in the shadow of her work, she was the tireless...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2025 | Sacred Heart, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
July 2, 1688 (at that time, the feast of the Visitation): Saint Marguerite-Marie, a nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, contemplates in a vision the Heart of Jesus, surrounded by the Virgin Mary, Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Claude la Colombière. The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
: Why is the quality and not the quantity of our devotion more important? Or to rephrase: How can amassing devotions be akin to “building our treasures on earth” instead of in heaven?Devotion is good and holy, but how can it lead to pride?In this letter, St. Francis...