by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Events, LENT, Vocation news
Visitation Companion Melissa-Borgmann-Kiemde blogs in a fascinating, thought-provoking way on the Papal discernment here: Lent Begins! Papal Discernments and Vocation Journeys May your own discernment journey benefit from her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach
1.How does Amna-Josephine’s rescue story parallel our own story of being rescued from sin? see post: Ahmna-Josephine,the Visitation Order’s “St. Bakhita” 2.What about other forms of bondage — psychological, relationship-based, or that of bad...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Sunday February 3rd, 2013 is World Day for Consecrated Life! Over the years, many men and women have chosen to live out their baptismal vocation by professing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They do this by joining a religious...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 28, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Topic of chat Sun: WHY SUFFERING? St Francis de Sales will help with his advice from the Treatise on the Love of God. http://visitationspirit.org/2013/01/st-francis-de-sales-and-suffering/ Car: Pope JP II wrote a beautiful letter on the christian meaning of suffering...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
WHY SUFFERING? Last Sunday’s chat left us with a question which we will take up on Sunday January 27th’s chat: namely WHY SUFFERING? This is a great mystery ameliorated only by the fact that Our Lord Himself suffered, and greatly. St Francis de Sales offers...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 21, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Sunday’s chat focused on: : How have you experienced the Mercy of God?When did you discover the devotion to Divine Mercy? Sister: I discovered Divine Mercy in 1987 the year before I entered the Monastery But I don’t remember how now How did He catch you?...