Mother Marie Madeleine Ponnet’s wisdom, gleaned in her deep interior life of mystical prayer, is timeless in its ability to touch souls. She suggests, “ Ask of Our Lord for the grace to make each of the acts of your life filled with the immensity of His own Love.” Such grace would bring us to [...]
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 life. This month we share a little about this French Visitation nun. Born in Lyon [...]
Years ago, a saintly man traveled to a distant land and spent nights sleeping in trees. The reason? The populace, fearful of local leaders, would not let him into their homes. The man was St. Francis de Sales, who as a bishop, experienced firsthand the religious persecution of Catholics in the Chablais, an area which [...]
