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Good news! Ordination & Candidates
Today Deacon Rudi Schwartzkopf OSFS is ordained as a Priest of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, in his hometown of Toledo Ohio! And in the new Visitation Community, the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, this has been an amazing two month journey for the...
St. Jane de Chantal and the Underprivileged
Saint Jane de Chantal served the poor, marginalized and underprivileged all her life, both as wife and widow and as foundress of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary. She taught her Sisters to do the same. "St. Chantal's daughters were not content with raising their...
St. Jane’s Prophetic Heart-Pt. 2
As we prepare for the Feast of St. Jane de Chantal Monday, August 12, we continue to marvel at the prophetic stance of her heart and that of her co-founder St Francis de Sales, towards the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 60 years before the revelations to Visitandine St....
The Prophetic Heart of St. Jane de Chantal
Part 1 As the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary , St Jane de Chantal, approaches on August 12, we turn to our Holy Mother’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to understand more deeply the mission of her monastic vocation. Both she...
Chatting about:Evangelizing Like St Francis de Sales
In our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday, we discussed these points: • What aspects can we imitate in St. Francis de Sales' 'man-to-man' approach to evangelization? • St. Francis' lifestyle was one of poverty and simplicity. How did this help his mission of...
Mystic Catherine Marie Putigny VHM, Pt. 2
Therese Putigny was born March 22 1803 in Eply, a village not far from the Metz Visitation. Her father was an honest farmer and her mother a model woman of virtue. At the young age of 4, Therese already had a great gift of prayer, though carrying the normal faults of...
Salesian Cordiality in Mobile
"Cordiality is the outward expression of one's deepest commitment to do all in one's power- even if that involves suffering and pain- to insure the spiritual, material and human well-being of the one who is embraced. The brief, warm and very tender embrace between...
August Mystic of the Month
Sister Marie Catherine Putigny, VHM Visitandine of Metz Part 1 The outstanding uniqueness of this lay Sister of the Metz, France Visitation Monastery was her devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Jesus. "One day, whilst she was praying in the tribune, she thought that...
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