by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 5, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
In the discernment for a contemplative, monastic vocation as a Visitandine Nun, Foundress St Jane de Chantal guides us with her Answers. Her Feast is coming up- August 12th. Diverse abilities St. Jane said, “Try to become acquainted with the attractions of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
In the discernment for a possible Visitandine vocation, St. Jane de Chantal, our Foundress, guides us with her Answers, and can serve as a preparation as well for her Feast August 12. Discernment of One’s Disposition for Religious Life St Jane said, “ There is less...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
St. Jane de Chantal’s Feast Day is August 12th. If you have ever had a fleeting or more permanent thought about discerning with the Visitation Order, let St Jane lead you as you prepare your heart for her Feast! Day One: St. Jane de Chantal said in her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 11, 2015 | Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be observed on Friday June 12 th this year. The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
St. Jane de Chantal, Foundress of the Visitation Order, spoke about the virtue of Modesty in her “Answers”, p 182 “My dear Sisters, the way to practice this well is to keep ourselves always in the presence of God. Modesty is the ornament of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 11, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal
St. Jane de Chantal had a most tender devotion to the Blessed Mother. This is how St. Vincent de Paul described it to his Daughters of Charity: “For a long time, a lady I knew had the practice in all her meditations of contemplating a picture of the Blessed...