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Preparing for the Feast of St Jane de Chantal, 2022
The Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, our Holy Mother, is celebrated on August 12. This year we will present a "novena" to spiritually prepare for the Feast, in a slightly different form. Meditations taken from a talk by a beloved...
Visitation Memories of August
August 3, 1903: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Nun of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there...
Our Uniqueness
We always have to move forward between two pitfalls: self-contempt and self-esteem. To the one who would despise his own life, Francis de Sales responds: "Don't forget that God has given you gifts, that he has placed qualities in you! "And to him who tends to...
A Fruitful Life
"The saints, like Saint Francis de Sales, are and always will be experts in humanity, because they have shown themselves to be experts in divinity". Having left all the room for God in their life, they have become particularly harmonized, unified, pacified beings,...
Video Interview of Mobile Visitation Monastery Sister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8dr5uwVpjA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3D0veeKtAuntUYfuZ1_CjXsWPftZXmB-vJ5ifKkxAvdWGwnzpT8KLWadU
Fr. Andre Ravier’s Bio on St. Francis de Sales on PDF
RAVIER Francesco di Sales - OneDrive (sharepoint.com)
Sunday chat July 24 on Religious Life
Visitation Sr (Guest): What is the purpose of religious life? Is it simply a safe haven for people who want to escape the world and have an "easier" way to obtain holiness? Or is it something else?How do we find the balance of...
St Francis de Sales Sermon on St Mary Magdalen
FOR THE FEAST OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE July 2, 1621 The mind of man is always worried, it is in continual agitations in search of human and apparent goods, which means that finding no contentment in those he meets, he remains full of trouble. From then on, thinking of...
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