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....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2015 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines
This week’s meditation takes the form of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, a devotional that Our Lord encouraged Sister Mary Martha Chambon VHM, a mystic of the Order, to say and share. On a certain Sunday in Lent, her Beloved Lord came to her and said,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
This month we continue with our series about the Mystics of Visitation Monastery of Nantes, France. Sister Angelique Claude Garnier is symbolized by the violet. She entered the Visitation Monastery at the age of 17, in 1654. Her vocation was rooted in spiritual and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2015 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Saintly Visitandines
Holy Lent! May your resolutions be sweet to your soul and prepare you for the joy of Easter! In March we celebrate St Joseph. We offer a meditation of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud about work: “You shall eat bread by the sweat of your brow.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
As the Church begins its process toward Visitation Sister Francoise Therese’s (Leonie Martin) beatification, many aspects of her life and devotion begin to be known. In addition, the deep relationship of the Carmelite and Visitation Orders in this Martin family...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2015 | Events, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Outreach
“On February 8th, the first International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking will be held. The event will coincide with the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who became a Canossian Sister after she was freed. She was...