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...
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 | Feb 9, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, 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 | 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 7, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Marie-Catherine Durye (1607 -1686) Born in Moulins in 1607, the daughter of a lawyer, Marie-Catherine entered the novitiate of the Visitation Monastery at 17, but she suffered frequent ailments that closed the door of the rank of choir sisters to her, so she became...