by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why the unlearned bear away heaven This week we are continuing with book six (“Of The Exercises Of Holy Love In Prayer.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Affective Love Practiced in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Who was this Marie-Blanche, Visitandine that was listed on the genealogical chart at the Gallery House in Annecy, the Visitation Order’s first Monastery? The chart showed that: St. Jane de Chantal’s son Celse Benigne had a daughter, Marie de Rabutin...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why is prayer a mystical experience? What are the special characteristics of meditation? What is the definition of Contemplative Prayer? Do you know of other definitions? In which way is knowledge an aid to love? In what way could it be a hindrance? Can love teach us...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Gallery House is the first community that the Visitation Order settled in with the original Foundresses and still exists today, owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, where various rooms are preserved to tell the story of St. Jane de Chantal and the Founding Sisters....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 17, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior said to her community of Sisters: ” The great mystery the Church presents to our faith in these holy days imposes on us a respectful silence, rather than obliges us to speak, because all speaks, instructs, touches, penetrates, , and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 15, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Beware: Meditation can be used for both good and evil This week we are continuing with book six (“Of The Exercises Of Holy Love In Prayer.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Affective Love...