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Chat Sunday Jan 7
Fasting, abstinence, and self-denial allow us to delay the pleasure of the goods God has given in this life. How can having more control over our desires for them be a co-redemptive remedy against the effects of the Fall?Does the grace we have as...
Blessed Epiphany!
May Jesus gift you as you gift Him- with Heart and hearts! A monastic custom is to choose an Epiphany Queen through the anonymous picking of a bean! To honor the Queen poems are written. Here is a sample: EPIPHANY QUEEN In the year of a Sesquicentennial A time of...
Newsletter for Chat Jan 7
Before the Incarnation, Men Lived Like Brute Beasts The following article is taken from a chapter in The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales: For Advent and Christmas by St. Francis de Sales, which is available from TAN Books.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read...
French videos on the 350th anniversary of the Sacred Heart
Au service du message du Sacré Cœur de Jésus - Table ronde (youtube.com) round table with Visitandines and priests Sainte Marguerite-Marie - La Visitation Sainte-Marie d'Annecy (visitationannecy.org)
Highlights from Talk at 350th Celebrations of the Sacred Heart in Paray
Given by Fr Kern at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on Dec 27 2023 We are preparing to experience a historic celebration which will mark the opening of the 350 years jubilee; we have the intuition that this sanctuary symbolically enters a new stage of its history, a...
Opening Events in France for 350th Jubilee of Sacred Heart
On December 27, 2023, we had the opportunity to attend the official opening celebration of the Jubilee of the 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial, marking the anniversary of the first apparition which...
Sunday Chat Dec31
Regarding St. Jane de Chantal’s choice of St. Francis de Sales as a director, St. Francis mentions that the due diligence they took in deliberating about this decision are together as “infallible signs” of acting according to God’s...
More Christmas Greetings from Around the Visitandine World
Muy queridas madres y hermanas: Con los corazones llenos de alegría al conmemorar el nacimiento que nos trajo tanta dicha a la humanidad les adjuntamos nuestra felicitación y mejores deseos para este tiempo y el año nuevo. Sus Hermanas de Santa María Palma de...
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