by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 7, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality
The feast of Pentecost is rooted in the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which commemorated, 50 days after Easter, the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai. Mary, the apostles and some disciples were gathered on this occasion. The Acts of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 5, 2025 | Visitation History
On June 6, 1610, François de Sales and Jeanne de Chantal founded the Order of the Visitation in Annecy. It is to “give to God souls of prayer, however interior they may be found worthy of serving his divine Majesty in spirit and in truth.” This interior...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 5, 2025 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We Must Love Obedience More Than We Fear Disobedience For Sunday’s Living Jesus Chat, we will again read an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. It explores the importance of generosity in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 2, 2025 | Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
May 15, 2025 Monastery of the Visitation – Soresina DON DANIELE PIAZZI «THIS IS THE HEART THAT HE LOVED SO MUCH» SUMMARY 1. St. Margaret Mary: biographical notes 2. The experience of St. Margaret Mary is in the wake of mysticism: what is it? 3. Devotion and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 2, 2025 | St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Three days of prayer, three days of closeness, three days of communion, three intense days, three days to remember. This is how we can summarize the peregrinatio of the relic of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque who from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 May stopped in Soresina, at...