by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2023 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
April 2023 Dear Guards of Honour, For once, to introduce this month’s council, I give the floor to Father Goy of our Coligny Center. May his lines inspire you as they have deeply inspired me!well in communion with each one and holy road to the Resurrection...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 11, 2022 | Advent, Saintly Visitandines
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in both Paris and Troyes, France in the mid-1800’s, was also the inspiration for the foundation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales through Blessed Louis Brisson. Her wisdom was profound and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 17, 2022 | Saintly Visitandines
November 18th is the Feast Day of seven Blessed Visitation Nuns who were martyred for their faith during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and beatified in 1998. Theirs was a Martydom of Love- the logical outcome of what the mystic among them, Sr. Teresa Maria Cavestany...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
1erNovember 1720:Monsignor de Belsunce consecrates the city and diocese of Marseille to the Sacred Heart. November 6, 1672: Profession of Saint Margaret Mary (mystical religious of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, who received from Christ the mission to establish...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Dear all, summer continues! Let’s go on beautiful feasts so dear to our hearts, those of Mary that we honor especially this month.Mary always leads us to her Son, She is the surest way to meet him. But Mary, the all Pure, challenges us on the way we behave.If we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
August 3, 1903: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Nun of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there...