by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 6, 2013 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
Part 1 As the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary , St Jane de Chantal, approaches on August 12, we turn to our Holy Mother’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to understand more deeply the mission of her monastic vocation. Both she...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 5, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
In our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday, we discussed these points: • What aspects can we imitate in St. Francis de Sales’ ‘man-to-man’ approach to evangelization? • St. Francis’ lifestyle was one of poverty and simplicity. How did this help...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Therese Putigny was born March 22 1803 in Eply, a village not far from the Metz Visitation. Her father was an honest farmer and her mother a model woman of virtue. At the young age of 4, Therese already had a great gift of prayer, though carrying the normal faults of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News
“Cordiality is the outward expression of one’s deepest commitment to do all in one’s power- even if that involves suffering and pain- to insure the spiritual, material and human well-being of the one who is embraced. The brief, warm and very tender...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Catherine Putigny, VHM Visitandine of Metz Part 1 The outstanding uniqueness of this lay Sister of the Metz, France Visitation Monastery was her devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Jesus. “One day, whilst she was praying in the tribune, she thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Pope Francis has challenged young people to be missionaries and go out to all the world with the Gospel. St. Francis de Sales’ own life provides the how-to! “Let us attempt to trace the portrait of the evangelizer such that Francis de Sales was in the...