by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2015 | Visitation News, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
On the Feast of our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, Saturday January 24, 2015, one of the novices of our Tyringham Massachusetts Visitation Monastery pronounced her first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the presence of her Sisters, family and Bishop Thomas...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 26, 2015 | St. Francis de Sales
In addition to Happy Birthday, that is! St. Francis de Sales had a great admiration for St Teresa and mentions her many times in his writings. This year the Carmelites are celebrating St Teresa’s 500th anniversary of birth in many substantial ways. We join them...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 26, 2015 | Visitation News
Today’s Toledo Blade newspaper highlights the Visitation Nuns in that city as well as the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Read it here: http://www.toledoblade.com/Religion/2015/01/24/A-contemplative-day-for-annual-feast-day-of-St-Francis-de-Sales.html...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 26, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We’ll be talking about the ‘aim in entering religious life’ during our chat session on Sunday. Here are some questions that will guild our reflection: What does it mean that religious are bound to more than simply the observance of the commandments?...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
http://www.ouest-france.fr/religion-vers-la-beatification-dune-soeur-de-sainte-therese-3136849 In English: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/01/28/cause-of-st-therese-of-lisieuxs-sister-is-opened/ Towards the beatification of St. Teresa’s sister...