by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 28, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
In these troubled times, what child does not have the deep desire to take refuge in the arms of a loving, comforting, reassuring mother? Mary is the one we can turn to with confidence to keep our serenity in trials or to implore her when we sink into desolation. His...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
The stream adheres to the source from which it drifts, the flower to the stem that supports it, the flame of the hearth that is consumed. To separate the stream from the spring, it dries up. Cut the flower from the stem, it fades. Remove the flame from the hearth, it...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2019 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
Here is a poor French Visitandine, of the rank of servants, who had the pains of the Passion. Daughter of honest merchants, Gertrude Elisabeth d’Origny was born in Troyes. Entering the monastery of Saint-Denis, near Paris, she spent her life in the kitchen and...
by Vis Editor | Dec 28, 2018 | Monthly Mystic
Mother Francoise Marguerite Patin had a unique relationship with Saint John Eudes and the Congregation of penitents that he started for women. Mother Patin, although a Visitandine, became Fr Eudes’ new community’s FIRST Superior!Here is her story.Born at...
by Editor | Nov 29, 2018 | Advent, Monthly Mystic, Salesian Spirituality
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in both Paris and Troyes, France in the mid-1800’s, was also the inspiration for the foundation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales through Blessed Louis Brisson. Her wisdom was profound and...
by Editor | Nov 8, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Chapter VI To you it has been given to know the Mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven. (St Mark, IV -11) The Confidence of Jesus – The Flight From the beginning of her religious life, Sister Marie-Angélique frequently heard, in the most intimate places of herself, in...