by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Let this beautiful month of June dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus be for all the guards of honor, and all their relatives, a source of joy, love and peace! Selfishness … or charity! “Behold this Heart which has so loved men, that it has spared nothing,...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 8, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
And the local coverage is superb! The La Montagne newspaper reports (Read the article in French): The 2015 exhibition of the Museum of the Visitation breaks tradition from those of the previous exhibitions: the embroidered banners and other priestly vestments give way...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 5, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series about the saintly Sisters of the Nantes, France Visitation Monastery. Yvonne Justeau was born in 1883. In 1886,her father, Mr. Justeau had to go his properties in the colonies, leaving Yvonne age 3 and her younger brother Lucien to maternal...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
We, the Visitandines of Moulins, is the title of the new exposition highlighting 400 years of the Visitation Order in the city of Moulins, France. Founded in 1616, this Visitandine community was the place where Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, spent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 8, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series from our Nantes Visitation Monastery about the holy Visitandines who lived there. This month we share the life of Sister Marie-Antoine Poyas. Juliet was born into a peasant family of Deux-Sèvres, 29 August 1883. As a widow, her mother took in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2015 | Events, Holy Year of Mercy, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Pope Francis has announced a Holy Year of Mercy to begin in December 2015. We shared this information and also some perspectives on St. Francis de Sales’ understanding of mercy in a previous post....