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Minneapolis Visitation in Vision Magazine
Under the title, Monastics find a New Desert, the Visitation Sisters' community in Minneapolis is featured in the 2012 issue of Vision magazine. Read it here: http://www.digitalvocationguide.org/vision/2012#pg40
New Video Highlights Heroic Life of St. Jane de Chantal
A three-minute video that outlines the life of St. Jane Frances de Chantal has just been made that explains the difficulties in life that the saint experienced and her foundation, along with St. Francis de Sales, of the Visitation Order. The video talks about such...
Living in the Presence of God
The Salesian perspective on prayer is attention to the presence of God. St. Francis writes, "Wherever we are, we find God present, but we do not think of it. So we must challenge our soul to an attentive consideration of His presence." St. Francis counsels us to...
Latest Salesian Worldwide News
The July Issue of the ICSS (International Commission for Salesian Studies) Newsletter is available here: http://www4.desales.edu/~salesian/resources/newsletters/english/News27.pdf
Leonie movie Premieres
Waiting eagerly for the release of this movie on Leonie Martin, (sister of St Therese), Visitandines in the U.S. and elsewhere are grateful for its premiere on August 1st in Michigan. Filmed partially in our Monastery of the Visitation in Toledo...
Living Interiorly
Salesian Spirituality challenges the human person to become holy- to become a saint. It is often described as a spirituality of the heart. The author of St. Mark's Gospel writes, " You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your...
Developing a Life of Prayer
In the Salesian tradition developing a life of prayer is essential to Living Jesus because it is modeled on the example of Jesus who often went apart to pray. St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal imitated the example of Jesus. Prayer was for them a loving...
New Salesian Series
We are beginning a new series of reflections on Salesian Spirituality with excerpts from the "Living Jesus" booklet. Today we begin with: LOVING GOD WITH LIBERTY OF SPIRIT A fundamental assumption in Salesian Spirituality is that the person created in God's image is...
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