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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...
Visitation memories of July
July 2, 1688 (at that time, the feast of the Visitation): Saint Marguerite-Marie, a nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, contemplates in a vision the Heart of Jesus, surrounded by the Virgin Mary, Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Claude la Colombière. The...
Sun chat June 29
: Why is the quality and not the quantity of our devotion more important? Or to rephrase: How can amassing devotions be akin to “building our treasures on earth” instead of in heaven?Devotion is good and holy, but how can it lead to pride?In this letter, St. Francis...
Guard of Honor Reflections -July
The Path Life has often been compared to a road that must be traveled. The starting point is a cradle, the arrival point, in the eyes of pessimists, is a grave, but in the eyes of Christians, it is Heaven! The road that leads from time to eternity is very different...
Newsletter for Sun chat June 29
We Have Not Sufficient Spiritual Heat to Digest Well All That We Take in for Our 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...
Pentecost to Sacred Heart week 3
Sunday, June 22Feast of the Blessed Sacrament “In response to My eagerness to do them good, menhave only coldness and revulsion… You at least, console Me by making up fortheir ingratitude… You will receive Communion every first Friday of themonth and every night from...
Solemn Vows Visitation Monastery, Voiron, France
Sister Agathe-Marie pronounced Solemn Vows June 21 2025 as a Visitandine in Voiron, France
Pope Leo 14th Letter on Conclusion of the Apparition Jubilee Year
LEO PP. XIV LETTER GIVEN FRANCIS XAVERIO TO H.R.E. CARDINAL BUSTILLO, O.F.M. CONV. ___________________________ To Our Venerable Brother FRANCIS XAVERIO, H.R.E. TO CARDINAL BUSTILLO, O.F.M. Conv. Bishop of Adiaccio "Behold that Heart, which loved men so much that it...
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