by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2015 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
V+J Ash Wednesday/Week 1 During Lent we will post thoughts, writings and sayings appropriate for Lent from various Visitandine Nuns, beginning with our Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal. She exhorted the Sisters, ” “My dear Sisters, I have but two words to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 16, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT
How can “formation of the heart” help us focus on Lent in a new way beyond giving up sweets and our favorite foods? In other words, how will you follow Pope Francis’ suggestion to embrace a “formation of the heart”? How might we use Lent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Our Visitation Monastery in Nantes France, in its new website, has chosen to honor its Sisters by identifying each one’s spirit with a particular flower as her life story is revealed. The original is in French: here we will translate or paraphrase her life story...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2015 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Do you want to live a Salesian Lent? The sermons of St. Francis de Sales for the Lenten season may be accessed here, from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales website: http://www.oblates.org/dss/sundays_salesian/sermons_for_lent.php
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2015 | Events, Photos & videos, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
A series of thirteen exquisite paintings of the Visitation Monastery and Sisters in Annecy France is currently on exhibit in the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, Tennessee. Artist Ms. Anne Goetze has a special interest in the Order as her aunt was a member of the...