by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality
May 13, 1920: Canonization of St. Margaret Mary (mystical nun of the monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, confidante of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) by Pope Benedict XV. May 13, 1933: Venerable Sister Marie-Marguerite Bogner is born in Heaven at the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2024 | Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News
The Conference on the Sacred Heart in Rome begins tomorrow, May 1, at the Villa Aurelia. Brooklyn Visitation Monastery Associate, John Staniszewski, is there. Tonight, Mass and vigil with relics of St Margaret Mary at Trinité des Monts (piazza di Spagna) Joining John...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Of the 240 homilies and sermons of St. Francis de Sales, more than twenty are in fact dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in which he extols the virtues of our “valiant captainess,” as he calls her in his Sermon for the Annunciation of March 25, 1621....
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Reflections:If we do successful things or laudable things, we could be praised for them, but how do we avoid doing those things for the sake of being praised? Or how do we not allow ourselves to be consumed by the praise we do end up receiving?How is it that imperfect...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
by Conférence Sr Maria Theresia (translated) I especially love these three little virtues: gentleness of heart, poverty of spirit and simplicity of life. » (EA, XIII, p. 92) SIMPLICITY… PURELY CHRISTIAN VIRTUE “This virtue is purely Christian, because the pagans, even...