by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 8, 2014 | Events, Visitation News
St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Annecy, now France and our Monastery there is affectionately referred to as our “Holy Source” A recent communication from the Sisters in Annecy delighted us...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 29, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
We would like to invite you to the centenary celebration of the death of the Foundress of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, Saint Léonie Aviat (Mother Frances de Sales) at Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church 1009 Stafford Avenue, Fredericksburg,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 20, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality
All events are open to the public, free admission, as De Sales University celebrates St. Francis de Sales, as Bishop of Geneva, Patron of Journalists, Cathedral Provost, Christian Humanist, and Doctor of the Church! Meet the Lecturers and learn more about this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 18, 2013 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
At any time in your life, have you been stirred by the message of St. Francis de Sales or St. Jane de Chantal? Fascinated by their lives? Drawn to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, or interested in the apparitions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque? Does an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 12, 2013 | Events, Visitation Outreach
Our Visitation family has much to ponder in these thoughts of Archbishop Lori, spoken in 2009 at a Marian conference. He compared the tremendous apparition in Mexico of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Our Lady’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth in stirring words....
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 3, 2013 | Events
From our Sisters in Brooklyn: We wait in expectation with our Blessed Mother for the arrival of Our Lord, in Memory, as a Babe in Bethlehem, in Presence, in our lives from minute to minute, and in Glory, when His Father chooses to send Him again to our world. Our...