by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 8, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
The interior thoughts of Mother Marie Madeleine Ponnet on LOVE give us an opportunity to contemplate the depths of this holiest of virtues during Lent. “In heaven one loves without interruption. I begged the Holy Spirit to teach me the most perfect act of love,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 2, 2016 | Guard of Honor, LENT
Our Lent continues and leads us to the sorrowful Holy Week. The month will end in the victorious Light of the Resurrection. To take advantage of the Easter graces, we must stay the course and hope to maintain our heart rooted in our effort. Sister Mary of the Sacred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
In 1912, without possessing special knowledge of painting Sister Marie Teresa Desandais, Visitandine, painted the first image of the painting of ‘”merciful love” , Jesus crucified, his eyes turned to the sky and in the background a large Sacred Host with “IHS”; from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Sister Marie Therese Desandais, a Visitandine Nun and Mystic, under the pen name of P.M. Sulamitis, worked with a Dominican priest to have her holy writings published. One of the works which we will post excerpts from this Lent is called La Visita Domiciliaria del...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 23, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
This Lent we Visitandines invite you to contemplate the Stations of the Cross according to Mother Angelica Alvarez Icaza, Mystic and Foundress of our Mexican City Monastery, pondering her thoughts about the suffering Face of Jesus. First Station Jesus is Condemned to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
The Jubilee Year of Mercy which Holy Father Pope Francis has initiated can be experienced in many different ways and we would like to share one of the Visitandine possibilities of living it out during this season of Lent. In older posts we have written about the...