by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 4, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
March 8-14th is the newly designated national Catholic Sisters Week! To celebrate that and the upcoming Year of Consecrated Life, we have a special chat session this Sunday. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life released a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales writes, “Lent is the autumn of the spiritual life during which we gather fruit to keep us going for the rest of the year. Enrich yourselves with these treasures, which nobody can take away from you and which cannot be destroyed. I am accustomed to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Lent: Fuel Up for the Rest of the Year Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership Ash Wednesday will soon take place, bringing us into the Lenten season.Traditionally, Catholics have practiced prayer, fasting, penance, and almsgiving during Lent as ways to grow closer to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Ebooks, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Download it here: Straightening the Wayward Path: Online Chats about Discernment You may recognize a call to religious life, but then what? What are some pitfalls to avoid? Should you find a spiritual director… and how? Contemplative or active order? What type...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales
Sun Chat: Spiritual Valentines We may feel that many religious holidays are corrupted today by materialism and secularism. Is this a new problem, or something the Church has always had to deal with? St. Francis de Sales’ ban on sending Valentines was not popular! Does...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
If you are a young woman in her 20’s or 30’s and have been pondering a vocation to the monastic, contemplative life, a Visitation community has been formed just for you! In June of 2013, the Second Federation of the Visitation in the United States began a...