by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 7, 2018 | Events, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
April 4, 1851: Profession of Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart April 19, 1665: Canonization of St. Francis de Sales by Alexander VII April 20, 1914: Mystical Marriage of the Servant of God Mother Maria Angelica Alvarez Icaza, of the Visitation of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 6, 2018 | Holy Year of Mercy, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News
In the hidden providence of Our Lord and His unfathomable designs, He arranged, through a variety of circumstances, that the ORIGINAL PAINTING OF THE DIVINE MERCY IMAGE be executed on the premises of the Visitation Nuns Monastery in Vilnius, Lithuania! There are many...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We are to be more and more united and joined to his divine goodness This week we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with book seven (“Of The Union Of The Soul With Her God, Which Is Perfected In Prayer.”) . Be sure to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In your opinion, which of the two would love God more: 1) the one born blind, who might know all the discourses that philosophers make of it and the praises they give it, or 2) the farmer, who by a clear sight feels and realizes the agreeable splendor of the rising...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2018 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A generation closer to our Foundress, St Jane de Chantal, than Marie-Blanche de Grignan (Sr Francoise Marie, Visitandine) was St. Jane’s great granddaughter, Diane, whose grandmother was Francoise, the only child of St. Jane to survive her. This granddaughter,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Marie Blanche de Grignan was the great-great granddaughter of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and the granddaughter of the famous letter writer, Madame Sevigne. Her mother Francoise, married to François Adhémar de Monteil, comte de...