by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2025 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Sacred Heart, Visitation History
Final chapter Here we conclude the life of our foundress: Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, born exactly 200 years ago, on October 28, she entered eternal life on August 3, 1903. A discreet figure who lived in the shadow of her work, she was the tireless...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2025 | Sacred Heart, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
July 2, 1688 (at that time, the feast of the Visitation): Saint Marguerite-Marie, a nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, contemplates in a vision the Heart of Jesus, surrounded by the Virgin Mary, Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Claude la Colombière. The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
: Why is the quality and not the quantity of our devotion more important? Or to rephrase: How can amassing devotions be akin to “building our treasures on earth” instead of in heaven?Devotion is good and holy, but how can it lead to pride?In this letter, St. Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2025 | Guard of Honor
The Path Life has often been compared to a road that must be traveled. The starting point is a cradle, the arrival point, in the eyes of pessimists, is a grave, but in the eyes of Christians, it is Heaven! The road that leads from time to eternity is very different...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
We Have Not Sufficient Spiritual Heat to Digest Well All That We Take in for Our Perfection For Sunday’s Living Jesus Chat, we will again read an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. It explores...