by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 4, 2015 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
Our Monastery of the Visitation in Annecy, our Holy Source, has a NEW website. View it here: http://www.diocese-annecy.fr/haute-savoie/basilique-visitation In addition the SALESIAN WEEK begins in August. Here is the brochure:
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2015 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News
Thursday, July 2 is marked as the day that the beatification process opened for Leonie Martin, a Visitation Nun who died in 1941 at the age of 78 and sibling of the Carmelite Saint Therese of Lisieux. Bishop Boulanger of Bayeux and Lisieux opened the beatification...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
This month’s focus is on a Sister of Nantes France who was very devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sister Marie Albertine Fournier. Born in Nantes in 1801, soon death robbed her of her father and poverty settled in the family. Overcome with grief and anguish,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
As members we are expected to believe what the Church believes On Sunday we will chat about identity and witness. His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., released a pastoral letter on Pentecost Sunday (May 24, 2015) entitled “Being...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Visitation Saints
Self-forgetfulness An heroic virtue – forgetting oneself! But Jesus showed us the way because he descended first into the abyss of “nothing.” “He emptied himself;He took the form of a slave … Created in the image of God, we were...