by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 6, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Lent Course Enrollment Lent Course Delivery These courses are run simultaneously for enrichment and are all ONLINE. Salesian Reflections for Lent Eucharist, Prayer, Reconciliation, Marriage & the Family, Discipleship.Presenter: Deacon George Kelly Director of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
You may be familiar with St. Josephine Bakhita,( 1869 – 8 February 1947) a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy, living and working there for 45 years. In 2000, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church But there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Blessed Louis Brisson OSFS, the Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was beatified on September 22, 2012. At his Beatification Mass, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Causes of Saints, said that “The Church needs holy priests like Blessed Louis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 28, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Topic of chat Sun: WHY SUFFERING? St Francis de Sales will help with his advice from the Treatise on the Love of God. http://visitationspirit.org/2013/01/st-francis-de-sales-and-suffering/ Car: Pope JP II wrote a beautiful letter on the christian meaning of suffering...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 25, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
“When St. Monica was about to give birth to the great St. Augustine, she dedicated him by repeated acts of oblation to the Christian religion and the service of God’s glory. He testifies to this and says that “he had already tasted God’s salt...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
WHY SUFFERING? Last Sunday’s chat left us with a question which we will take up on Sunday January 27th’s chat: namely WHY SUFFERING? This is a great mystery ameliorated only by the fact that Our Lord Himself suffered, and greatly. St Francis de Sales offers...