by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
with St Francis de Sales “Thomas said, ‘If I don’t put my hand in his side, I won’t believe!'”John 20:19-31 Sermon of St. Francis de Sales, 21 Dec. 1622 (Works X, 409) St. Thomas committed the great sin of infidelity; When the other...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 5, 2024 | Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Sacred Heart- Divine Mercy Saint Margaret Mary and Saint Faustina – they are separated by time and space. Saint Margaret lived in France in the 17th century, during the Thirty Years’ War, but also during the full flowering of Cartesian culture and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales
Père Olivier BARNAY + Directeur national (France) de la Garde d’Honneur Homily for the Solemnity of St Francis de Sales (Patron Saint of the Guard of Honor) Monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, January 24, 2024. “Prayer, this immersion of the soul in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2024 | Guard of Honor
The Christian Spirit What is a Christian but another Christ? And what spirit constantly animated Christ Jesus, the Word made flesh and descended from heaven to redeem the guilty man, if not a spirit of reparation and penance? This dear Saviour stood perpetually...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 2, 2024 | Visitation History
Memento of the month April 2, 1787: The Superior of the Visitation of Annecy makes known to the whole Order the 5 visions of a Sister whose name she does not mention, and to whom Jesus asked for a renewal of devotion to her Heart, and the propagation of her worship....