by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 20, 2014 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
From USCCB: The Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Serve will take place from June 21 to July 4, 2014, a time when our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power—St. Thomas More and St....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 20, 2014 | Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Why not consider a monastic retreat? Give your heart to Jesus, and open your soul to the spiritual life. The Founders of the Visitation Order, St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal, have established a religious family who continue to live the profound and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 17, 2014 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Founding Mother of Guadalajara Visitation Monastery A Holy Soul Sr Juana Francisca de Rotaeche was born November 24 1850 in Spain and was baptized Maria . She married a military man when she was 22 years old. On Holy Thur of 1878 she lost her husband and from then...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 16, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Sacred Heart
When did you discover this devotion to the Sacred Heart? How can we spread the news of God’s overwhelming love for us? As St. Francis de Sales so poetically put it, how do we live “in the pierced side of the Savior?” As well as celebrating Christ’s love, why do we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 14, 2014 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“Over and over, through a multitude of images and exhortations, Francis de Sales beckons to his readers and his listeners, urging them to live with generosity of heart as he did the love of the pierced Heart of Christ. Francis wishes all others to breathe out in...