by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Vocation news
María Magdalena García Ventura worked for years as a dentist in her country until she entered the Salesian Sisters of San Salvador as a postulant. Years later, stationed in Granada, Spain, she made her perpetual profession on Palm Sunday. “My vocation was a late one,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2025 | LENT
We are preparing to begin Holy Week, so called because it contains all the treasures of grace of the Redemption of Jesus, who gave us life. We want to enter into the Paschal Mystery and accompany the Lord through prayer, lectio divina, listening to and meditating on...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 13, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does it mean that Christ is the “first-born of all creatures”?Was our redemption by Jesus a plan of God’s from the beginning? Were we “supposed to sin”?Related, how at the Easter Vigil can we pray: “O truly necessary sin of Adam which was blotted...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 13, 2025 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
THE WAY SERMON DELIVERED AT THE VISITATION OF FRIBOURG, NOVEMBER 19, 1897 SECOND DAY OF THE TRIDUUM CELEBRATED ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CAUSE OF THE VENERABLE MOTHER MARIE DE SALES CHAPPUIS BY FATHER FRAGNIÈRE DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY PROFESSOR...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2025 | LENT, Spiritual Directory
and the Third Article Meditations of Mother Jeanne de Chantal Jouzel (THIRD ARTICLE)-The Sisters who wish to prosper and make progress in the way of our Lord must at the beginning of all their actions, both interior and exterior, ask for His grace and offer to His...