by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2018 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
The Prayer of Mother Anne-Regis Filliat “O Divine Lover of the Cross, in your example may I learn to love the crucifixion of the body and the spirit! »: “Whoever is called to work actively in the Lord’s Vineyard must learn, as the Divine Master...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2018 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior speaks ” Have the same sentiment as Jesus Christ’ is the exhortation of the Apostles to the faithful and it seems the Church cannot repeat it to often after them, during these holy days, in which the Church presents to us our Head,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 24, 2018 | LENT
From a Superior’s Talk: “We must, to enter into the spirit of the Church, retrace in ourselves the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, crucifying ourselves spiritually with Him on Mount Calvary and dying with Him by a perpetual mortification. It is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 20, 2018 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
Today February 20 was a special day for St Francis de Sales, back in 1602! He was not yet a Bishop but he preached the Lenten sermons in Paris on that day at the Louvre, in response to some princesses who had invited him, especially the princess of Longueville. His...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2018 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
The Visitation Order’s archives hold many profound writings of individual Community Superiors who gave conferences to their Sisters during Lent. This year we will quote from some of these unnamed Superiors as we journey through Lent 2018. ” Nothing is more...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2018 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality
The Visitation Order’s archives hold many profound writings of individual Community Superiors who gave conferences to their Sisters during Lent. This year we will quote from some of these unnamed Superiors as we journey through Lent 2018. “We cannot commence...