by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2012 | Formation Q&A of St. Jane, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
One of the most precious gifts of the early stages of your religious life in a congregation is the wisdom and guidance of the Formation or Novice Directress or Director. A mutual spiritual bond is formed from their guidance of your soul and life in community that is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2012 | Formation Q&A of St. Jane, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
From the Series, “Formation Q&A of St. Jane” St. Jane de Chantal was a wise Foundress who understood the delicate process of spiritual development throughout the novitiate years. Often the Novice Directress asked her guidance as she sought to be...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 7, 2012 | Formation Q&A of St. Jane, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
From the series, “Formation Q&A of St. Jane.” We are beginning a series on the delightful way St. Jane de Chantal had of instructing her Visitation Nuns in the spirit and practices of the Visitation Order. St. Jane felt the best way to share her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 4, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Conclusion: The annual retreats were times of special joy for Sr. Mary Martha. Then she could bury herself deeply in her Master’s Heart and learn its secrets, for he would allow her no other book. Revealing again His Heart He said, “Tell your Superior to come and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 3, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Ven. Mary Martha Chambon was blessed to experience the presence of the Lord Jesus with her almost continually. She sensed Our Lord Jesus say to her one time, “My heart is wide, My Heart is tender. The wound of My Heart is deep enough to contain all your needs.”In...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
One cannot be devoted to the Holy Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ without acknowledging the role played by a Visitation nun of Chambery, France, Venerable Mary Martha Chambon, in the renewal of this devotion. This humble and illiterate lay Sister was mystically...