by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2015 | Guard of Honor
Guarding Our Thoughts At the heart of summer, contrary to the spirit of the world that suggests relaxing the body and mind, the foundress of the Guard of Honor, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud invites us to ” focus ” on the essential of our lives!...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Visitation Saints
Self-forgetfulness An heroic virtue – forgetting oneself! But Jesus showed us the way because he descended first into the abyss of “nothing.” “He emptied himself;He took the form of a slave … Created in the image of God, we were...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Let this beautiful month of June dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus be for all the guards of honor, and all their relatives, a source of joy, love and peace! Selfishness … or charity! “Behold this Heart which has so loved men, that it has spared nothing,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Dear Honor Guards, In this month dedicated to the Virgin Mary, our Founder invites us to live our hour of attendance as the example of “one who said ‘yes’ and started running to fulfill the Will of God!” Goodwill “I am the handmaid of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but what you want.” (Mt 26,39) In this Holy Week, welcome every event of our days as opportunities to love Jesus more and as many “small gifts” from heaven...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2015 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Saintly Visitandines
Holy Lent! May your resolutions be sweet to your soul and prepare you for the joy of Easter! In March we celebrate St Joseph. We offer a meditation of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud about work: “You shall eat bread by the sweat of your brow.”...