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Newsletter for Sunday chat Jul 20
Make Good Resolutions and Detach Yourself From Your Own Opinions 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 nurturing...
Visitation Museum Exhibit 2025
Downstairs, an introductory room devoted to the architecture of the churches built for the Visitation in the 19th century This is a fairly quick route, but it shows that the churches of the Visitation in France in the 19th century (there are about 70 of them) are...
Life of a Blessed Guard of Honor Member
Blessed Vladimir Ghika, Martyr and Guard of Honor Vladimir Ghika was born in Constantinople on Christmas Day, 1873. He came from a princely dynasty that ruled over Moldavia and Wallachia, the two principalities that formed Romania, before the latter was recognized as...
Newsletter for Sunday chat Jul 13
Do Not Press Your Heart Too Much for Desires of Perfection 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 nurturing faith with...
Sunday chat Jul 6
What is mental prayer? Is it merely praying silently in our minds instead of out loud?What is the “goal” of mental prayer?Why is it helpful to affix our minds on a holy mystery to aid in mental prayer?What is the difference between meditation and...
Newsletter for Chat Jul 6
How to Best Meditate on the Mysteries of the Life and Death of Our Savior 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...
Reflections-Guard of Honor-Aug and Sept
August 2025 Peace and Happiness How inspired is the human heart when it turns resolutely to God! It knows, by faith, that God alone is its true rest. Trials of every kind: illness, poverty, humiliation, even death, may arise, but nothing troubles the one who has...
Life of Sr Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud
Final chapter Here we conclude the life of our foundress: Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, born exactly 200 years ago, on October 28, she entered eternal life on August 3, 1903. A discreet figure who lived in the shadow of her work, she was the tireless...
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