by Editor | Dec 8, 2018 | Advent, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
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. From a conference Mother Chappuis...
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...
by Editor | Nov 7, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Chapter V “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! (St Luke, XII-49) The nun The Community which, in 1906, welcomed the young professed coming out of the novitiate, was going to have to help her build up the patience and ...
by Editor | Nov 6, 2018 | Discernment with DeSales, Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Vocation news
Chapter IV If anyone wants to come after Me, let him carry his cross every day and follow me. (St Luke, IX -23) Postulancy – Novitiate When a postulant crosses the threshold of the novitiate, she soon learns that she will be able to penetrate the religious...
by Editor | Nov 5, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Chapter III Whoever has left his father, and his mother, his brother, his sister, or his house for Me, will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. (St Matthew, XIX -29) To the Cloister At the age of eighteen, her studies having been completed, Charlotte fully...
by Editor | Nov 4, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Chapter II I have come so that my sheep have life and have it abundantly. (St John, X-10) The student – the teenager With her two sisters, Charlotte attended the boarding school of the Sacred Heart of Granville. Intelligent, used to thinking about the raison...