by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sr. Mary de Sales Galerne VHM, did not have a long life, living only 37 years, from 1895 to 1932. But this French Visitation Nun managed to grow interiorly from a young person indifferent to religion in her early youth to one filled with profound spiritual wisdom,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
You may be familiar with St. Josephine Bakhita,( 1869 – 8 February 1947) a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy, living and working there for 45 years. In 2000, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church But there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 16, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Teresa Desandais VHM Many of you have heard of St. Faustina and the revelations of the Divine Mercy of Our Lord Jesus. But have you heard of the Apostle of Merciful Love, Sister Marie Teresa Desandais? She was a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
MADRE MARIA AMATA FAZIO, VISITANDINE MYSTIC “If your eye is single, your whole body will be healthy,” says Our Lord, as quoted by St. Matthew (6:22). And that word “single” has the same meaning as “simple,” that is focused, as...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 6, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Marie Madeleine Ponnet’s wisdom, gleaned in her deep interior life of mystical prayer, is timeless in its ability to touch souls. She suggests, ” Ask of Our Lord for the grace to make each of the acts of your life filled with the immensity of His...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 3, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Spiritual Directory, Visitation Saints
Any Visitandine will tell you that the name “Mother Ponnet” is synonymous with the “Commentary on the Spiritual Directory”, our guide to the interior life. But this profound commentary was only possible because of Mother Ponnet’s own...