by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 3, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
Vanity is an easy vice to warn against, but what about ambition? That’s commonly considered positive in our day and age. Why does St. Francis see it as negative?What makes vanity a defect of courage?What is vanity, precisely? Is it just about a concern for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2023 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
December 8, 1602: Episcopal ordination of Saint Francis de Sales in the church of his baptism in Thorens. December 13, 1641: Saint Jeanne de Chantal is born in Heaven at the Monastery of the Visitation in Moulins, at the age of 69. December 17, 1887: Birth of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2023 | Advent, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
and with the words of Mother Anna Maddalena Benucci, VHM, Visitandine(1899-1993, Rome Visitation) Source: “Image et paroles d’une Mere” (Monastery of the Visitation of Rome, private publication) Week One: HUMILITY Sunday December 3 In thought I come...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 30, 2023 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How Vanity and Ambition Can Sink Our Ship from Selected Letters of St. Francis de Sales.To prepare for our chat on Sunday, please read the article, which is reproduced below, and review the questions at the end.Click for Living Jesus Chatroom Pieter Bruegel the Elder...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 29, 2023 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Léonie Martin: strength in weakness by Véronique Jacquier Wednesday November 29, 2023 Sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Léonie, born one hundred and sixty years ago, was the enfant terrible of the Martin family. His difficult childhood, coupled with religious...