by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 11, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
by Melissa A 2nd Monday night gathering of Salesian friends. Dear Friends, We are looking ahead with excitement to a new season of SALESIAN 2nd MONDAY EVENINGS. This is a lively gathering of Visitation Sisters, Neighbors, Visitation Companions and friends for a light...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Salesian Labor Day! How does your style of work compare to that which St Francis advocates?How do you bring the Lord into your work and workplace? How does your vocational discernment fit into your current employment? In what ways do you show God that you trust Him as...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Carmela Aprile We have a most unique story to unfold about this contemporary mystic, her relationships to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Visitation Monastery of Rosolini! Here is a woman, born in 1878 in poverty, widowed young, who buys an image of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
While Labor Day did not exist in St Francis de Sales time or culture, he did have thoughts about the tradition of work, and wrote about it in several of his writings. Here we quote from his Treatise on the Love of God. Perhaps these words can provide a meditation for...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary follows the Rule of St. Augustine, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ruleaug.html chosen by our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, when we were erected into a formal Order after several years as a simple congregation in...