by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Holy Father Pope Francis has issued his Lenten message for 2014 and it focuses on poverty. http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-lenten-message-2014 St. Francis de Sales also spoke of poverty. Poverty of spirit, St. Francis used to say, comprised three...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 4, 2014 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Holy Father Pope Francis has designated 2015 as the Year of Consecrated Life (10/14-11/15) The Sisters of the Visitation hope to enter the celebration this year with the spirit of their Founders and share with you aspects of our charism of humility, gentleness,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 3, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Vocation news
Why do you think Bl. John Paul II started the World Day for Consecrated Life? How can our prayers help the religious? The mystery of the incarnation is celebrated on the Feast of the Annunciation, and again on Christmas. Would the incarnation still have meaning,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2014 | Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Last year we shared about a young girl named Josephine, http://visitationspirit.org/2013/02/ahmna-josephinethe-visitation-orders-st-bakhita/ who like her more famous counterpart, St. Bakhita, was rescued from an abducted life in Africa and brought to a Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2014 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
” If there is a disposition capable of attracting the benevolent gaze of the Lord and moving us forward in the way of perfection, it is certainly the one expressed by the Virgin of Nazareth , “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” Whereas by an act of...