by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 6, 2016 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
I thank our Lord for his infinitely merciful action on your soul. Simply put into practice the word of the beloved Venerable Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis that obtained for you so many graces: ” only say yes to His goodness and let him do it.” But...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 4, 2016 | Guard of Honor, Saintly Visitandines
Dear all, May the Lord bless each of you (and those you treasure) during this new year full of Mercy. For many, every day is a new challenge, Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud gives her monthly council to give us the energy to lift us up Let us go forward in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Sister Jeanne-Marie Peret (1672 – c.1688 – 1760) Eldest in a family of twelve children, Jeanne-Marie was placed in residence at the age of 12 years at the Visitation of Moulins and entered the novitiate at 15 against the advice of her father who threatened...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 17, 2015 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints, Year of Consecrated Life
Visitandine Martyrs When St. Francis de Sales spoke of martyrdom, he probably had no idea that nearly 400 years later Sisters of the Order he founded would have the privilege of dying for their faith. But indeed this did happen to seven Spanish Vistandines in 1936,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 29, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
” We are passing ! ” “Yes, we pass, and quickly, without stopping in this land of exile. We are only passers-by .Faith and reason illuminate this truth cloudlessly: out of the bosom of God, we are heading for Him and returning! This is indisputable,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 1, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Our series of the Saintly Sisters of Nantes France was completed last month; this month we begin a short series on saintly Visitandnes of Moulins, France. The following two Sisters were contemporaries in the Visitation Monastery of Moulins. Sr. Marie-Marguerite...