by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
White gratings are the lines that separate the mundane from the sacred world, where Sister Luz Helena Barco Fonseca lives within the Monastery of the Visitation of Santa María, a cloister celebrating its 100th anniversary in Manizales. Sitting in a small reception...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Think of the little duties we must do each day that actually annoy us. How can we approach them with a willing heart?How should we respond to the requests of others that are difficult or too demanding? How do we discern when to say no?What is the proper way to respond...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 3, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Plant Jesus Christ in Your Heart, and All the Crosses of This World Will Only Seem to You Roses ,For Sunday’s Living Jesus chat we will read again an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. Let us...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
April 2, 1787: The Superior of the Visitation of Annecy informs the entire Order of the five visions of a Sister whose name she withholds, and to whom Jesus asked for a renewal of devotion to his Heart and the spread of his cult. This is what triggered the creation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 30, 2025 | Guard of Honor, Saintly Visitandines
We continue the life of our foundress: Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, a discreet figure who lived in the shadow of her work and yet was its tireless driving force throughout her life. Growth and Controversy The Guard of Honor thus experienced a meteoric...