by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2015 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines
This week’s meditation takes the form of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, a devotional that Our Lord encouraged Sister Mary Martha Chambon VHM, a mystic of the Order, to say and share. On a certain Sunday in Lent, her Beloved Lord came to her and said,”...
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.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2015 | LENT, Visitation Saints
St. Margaret Mary was Novice Directress for a time and one Lent, she suggested to her novices to follow these Lenten instructions, which may give all of us a practical way to live this Holy season: “Behold, my very dear Sisters, a little challenge, as I think...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2015 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
V+J Ash Wednesday/Week 1 During Lent we will post thoughts, writings and sayings appropriate for Lent from various Visitandine Nuns, beginning with our Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal. She exhorted the Sisters, ” “My dear Sisters, I have but two words to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 16, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT
How can “formation of the heart” help us focus on Lent in a new way beyond giving up sweets and our favorite foods? In other words, how will you follow Pope Francis’ suggestion to embrace a “formation of the heart”? How might we use Lent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2015 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Do you want to live a Salesian Lent? The sermons of St. Francis de Sales for the Lenten season may be accessed here, from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales website: http://www.oblates.org/dss/sundays_salesian/sermons_for_lent.php