by Sister Susan Marie | May 1, 2013 | St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, and as we begin the month of May, we also honor our Blessed Mother in special ways throughout the next 4 weeks. What many virtues they can teach us! St. Francis de Sales highlights the example of this most holy couple by...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
So, you are close to making your decision about your vocation, or you have just said Yes to the Lord! Or, you have just entered upon your Formation Program and are overwhelmed by the call to holiness! Strength at first fills you, but then waves of doubt begin to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
A Time to Plant and A Time to Grow Whether there is a seed in your heart just beginning to sprout or the blossoming of a flower, we invite you to Pray, Share, experience , our monastic life with us as an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 29, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Sun April 28th chat: Struggling with temptation? Let St Francis de Sales help!How does St. Francis’s suggestions expand your capacity to love God and ignore temptation? : http://visitationspirit.org/2013/04/struggling-with-temptation-let-st-francis-de-sales-help/ ...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 26, 2013 | Events, Visitation News, Vocation news
Spring is the time for new life. And at the Visitation, life is being renewed as Novices spring up from the Postulancy! While Sister Mary of Brooklyn Visitation Monastery is resting from her labors in retreat, preparing to become a novice on May 1st,—three and a...