MADRE MARIA AMATA FAZIO, VISITANDINE MYSTIC “If your eye is single, your whole body will be healthy,” says Our Lord, as quoted by St. Matthew (6:22). And that word “single” has the same meaning as “simple,” that is focused, as Our Lord Himself told Martha to be, on the ONE necessary thing. Our Holy [...]
The devotion to Our Lord’s Holy Wounds received new impetus under the guise of a humble lay Sister of the Visitation, Sister Mary Martha Chambon, of the Visitation Monastery, then of Chambery, France. Over a century later, this devotion continues to draw the faithful. Thus a new organization was established recently in the Visitation Monastery [...]
November 18th is the Feast Day of seven Blessed Visitation Nuns who were martyred for their faith during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and beatified in 1998. Theirs was a Martydom of Love- the logical outcome of what the mystic among them, Sr. Teresa Maria Cavestany VHM called ” the little immolations…which the Divine [...]
