by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Pope Francis has challenged young people to be missionaries and go out to all the world with the Gospel. St. Francis de Sales’ own life provides the how-to! “Let us attempt to trace the portrait of the evangelizer such that Francis de Sales was in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2013 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Saints
“Pope Francis commissioned some 3 million young people to join forces and form what could be called Missionaries Without Borders. “Where does Jesus send us?” he asked World Youth Day pilgrims July 28. “There are no borders, no limits: He sends...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 28, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
Did you know?- that St Francis de Sales, Founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary might have chosen St Martha as the congregation’s patron? Among the questions to be settled in the early days of Francis and Jane’s fledgling institute was its name....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 25, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Events, Vocation news
A great and lengthy article on the ordination of the four Oblates of St. Francis de Sales was featured in the Allentown Diocesan newspaper. Read it here; meet each new Oblate Priest and learn about their faith journey....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 24, 2013 | Events, Sacred Heart, Visitation Outreach, YEAR OF FAITH
On his sacred journey to Rio, Pope Francis demonstrated his deep affection for the youth of the world by placing them in the Heart of Christ. The Holy Father said, “I am here to meet young people coming from all over the world, drawn to the open arms of Christ...