by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2016 | Monthly Mystic, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Today, Sept 1, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the passing of Visitandine mystic Sr. Benigna Consolata Ferrero. Many are just getting to know her but for years her writings and spirituality have influenced other holy souls! Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero (1916...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2016 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught complete abandonment to the Father when He was on the Cross. This Holy Week we will once again hear His cry “My God, My God, why Have You abandoned Me?” Visitandine Mother Ponnet sheds light on this act of abandonment for our...
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 15, 2016 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
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 | Jan 2, 2016 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Born in 1691, Marie Anne was the youngest in her family. At ten years old she went to the Visitation Monastery Boarding School near Bourbonnais, France but initially was not happy there. Eventually she settled in. Her sudden conversion was born of a violent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Sister Jeanne-Marie Peret (1672 – c.1688 – 1760) Eldest in a family of twelve children, Jeanne-Marie was placed in residence at the age of 12 years at the Visitation of Moulins and entered the novitiate at 15 against the advice of her father who threatened...