by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2016 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught complete abandonment to the Father when He was on the Cross. This Holy Week we will once again hear His cry “My God, My God, why Have You abandoned Me?” Visitandine Mother Ponnet sheds light on this act of abandonment for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
The interior thoughts of Mother Marie Madeleine Ponnet on LOVE give us an opportunity to contemplate the depths of this holiest of virtues during Lent. “In heaven one loves without interruption. I begged the Holy Spirit to teach me the most perfect act of love,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2016 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
1858-1914 Any Visitandine will tell you that the name “Mother Ponnet” is synonymous with the “Commentary on the Spiritual Directory”, our guide to the interior life. But this profound commentary was only possible because of Mother Ponnet’s own deep, mystical interior...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
In 1912, without possessing special knowledge of painting Sister Marie Teresa Desandais, Visitandine, painted the first image of the painting of ‘”merciful love” , Jesus crucified, his eyes turned to the sky and in the background a large Sacred Host with “IHS”; from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Sister Marie Therese Desandais, a Visitandine Nun and Mystic, under the pen name of P.M. Sulamitis, worked with a Dominican priest to have her holy writings published. One of the works which we will post excerpts from this Lent is called La Visita Domiciliaria del...