From our Sisters in Troyes:
Beatification, Saturday,September 22, of the Venerable Father Louis Brisson (1817-1908), Founder of the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, under the inspiration of our Venerable Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, chaplain and confessor of their Visitation convent in Troyes for 40 years!
You understand just how this Beatification interests them and how grateful they are preparing to live – in the shadow of their cloister – those memorable days!
Schedule:
– Friday, September 21, 2012
– 20h: vigil around the life of Father Brisson, the cathedral of Troyes.
– Saturday, September 22
– 15h: Beatification ceremony at the Cathedral, presided by His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Causes of Saints, representing Pope Benedict XVI.
– 20h: Show: Father Brisson “Yesterday and Today”
– House Notre Dame Isle – 10, rue de l’Isle
– Sunday, September 23:
– 10am Mass of thanksgiving at the Abbey Plancy-chaired by Bishop Stenger, Bishop of Troyes
– 15h and 17h: Visit the House of Father Brisson, church and village
– A Showabout Father Brisson, played by the villagers.
Monday, September 24 will be a day of thanksgiving celebrated in the privacy of the monastery, with the Oblates, Oblate Sisters and the community.
At 9 30, more than a hundred Oblates will fill the Chapel – with Father General, Aldino Kiessel – and the Bishop to preside and concelebrate on the same altar where the Blessed celebrated for 40 years.
In the choir, our Oblate Sisters take their place with their Mother Superior General and the Community.
After the Mass, with the permission of the Bishop, all participants can make a quick pilgrimage to various places marked by Blessed and Venerable Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis: the tomb of Mother’s room; also the parlor of the Savior’s appearance to the Blessed Father Brisson.
Finally, on September 8, their postulant, Sister Anne-Marie, took the Habit of the Visitation.
Please also ask for each of them a faithful correspondence to the graces of the Beatification of Father Brisson.
