by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 28, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Love showed through all of Jane’s letters, She loved her sisters with real affection and loved them enough to encourage them to spiritual heights. She cherished the friendships that existed between herself and the first sisters of the Visitation. Her letters to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Perhaps Jane as mother is the role with most appeal for us today. The charming pictures of her playing with her children, teaching them their lessons, sacrificing herself for them so that their grandfather would not squander their inheritance—all these incidents...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 25, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Jane was a person of her time who sought holiness in the situations in which she found herself. She suffered valiantly and yet kept going. She wasn’t afraid to be who she was: a woman of courage, who was faithful to the commitments that came with each stage of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
During her marriage to Christophe, one of Jane’s greatest joys was service to the poor and sick. She devoted herself to them at her husband’s estates in Bourbilly and later at Monthelon, her father-in-law’s estate. She saw it as one way to share her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Jane was no stranger to suffering, especially the suffering caused by the death of a loved one. Her mother died while Jane was a baby; her husband was killed in a hunting accident when she was very young and it happened just after the birth of her fourth child. Three...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2011 | "Prayerful Moments" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Francis’ description of a Sister of the Visitation as “the Will of God in her,” surely applies first and foremost to Jane de Chantal. Her whole life could be called an image of love stretched out, surrendered, offered, accepting all in its embrace of...