by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
St. Jane de Chantal, Foundress of the Visitation Order, spoke about the virtue of Modesty in her “Answers”, p 182 “My dear Sisters, the way to practice this well is to keep ourselves always in the presence of God. Modesty is the ornament of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 25, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The powerful occasion of Pentecost was amazing, but we see in the Visitation that Elizabeth already experienced her own kind of Pentecost. How can Pentecost and the Visitation serve us a reminder that God wants to work in the life of every individual and in the whole...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Power of the Spirit Within Us Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about spiritual receptivity. How does a Visitandine live in the power of the Holy Spirit in the charism bequeathed to the Visitation Order? We can get glimpses by meditating upon...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 18, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, Year of Consecrated Life
How does a Visitandine live in the power of the Holy Spirit in the charism bequeathed to the Visitation Order? We can get glimpses by meditating upon the Gospel passage that Visitandines live by, the visit of Mary and Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke. The mystery of...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 18, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Saint James says about the tongue: “With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so” (James 3:9-10). With Mary as our example, how...