by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation News
For many years this website has researched into the history of the Visitation Monasteries in Europe who were privileged to be part of the rescue of trafficked women in the 1800’s. In 2014 we featured Marie Kaisale, who was rescued and placed in the Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Vovete et reddite Domino, “Vow ye and pay unto the Lord your God,” a text from the Twenty-fifth Psalm, is the inscription to be found directly over the entrance door of the Georgetown Convent of the Visitation. To vow and then to pay unto the Lord! To vow,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 6, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The Gift of Understanding Gives Us Clearer Insight Into the Mysteries of Our Faith At our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday we will be talking about a letter written by Saint Francis de Sales to Saint Jane de Chantal, written from Annecy on June 15, 1609.A contextual...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The Introduction to the Devout Life is now a spiritual classic and a “must-read” for Catholics wanting to grow in their faith and devotion. How could it be, then, that St. Francis is surprised by its rising “success”?What do you think about the fact that the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
2 February: Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a day of prayer for religious men and women of apostolic life.February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude La Colombière (Jesuit, apostle of devotion to the Sacred Heart and spiritual director of Saint...