by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
An excellent reflection on a characteristic virtue of St. Francis de Sales much in need in our world today, patience, written by Father William Nessel, OSFS: Lenten Reflections: Patience...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2015 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines
This week’s meditation takes the form of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, a devotional that Our Lord encouraged Sister Mary Martha Chambon VHM, a mystic of the Order, to say and share. On a certain Sunday in Lent, her Beloved Lord came to her and said,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 4, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Christian Perfection Challenges Us Live+Jesus On Sunday we will chat about devotion. The Ten Commandments served two purposes in the lives of the Israelites: they reminded them of the experience of slavery in the past at the hands of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
This month we continue with our series about the Mystics of Visitation Monastery of Nantes, France. Sister Angelique Claude Garnier is symbolized by the violet. She entered the Visitation Monastery at the age of 17, in 1654. Her vocation was rooted in spiritual and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 2, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How can we connect these words of Jesus with what St. Paul told Timothy: “The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains...