by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 18, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
The participation of St. Françis de Sales in the promotion of the cult of Saint Joseph highlights the emotional relationship between Jesus and his earthly father On March 17, 1611, St. Françis de Sales evokes this “great Saint, who so often pampered our Savior...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Spiritual graces were expected from St Joseph by many Visitandines in our history. Marie-Augustine Bouvard, who died in Paris in 1659, had “confessed to a trusted person that she had received very special graces from him, for the release of some internal...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 16, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Eleanor Roere was born in Turin on the first day of October in the year 1638, the day on which our worthy Mother de Chantal and her virtuous daughters arrived in this city to establish a Monastery. Does it not seem that the Institute of the Visitation came to receive...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The great Doctor of the Church and bishop of Geneva, St. Francis de Sales, was not only a faithful devotee of the Guardian of the Redeemer but his avid proponent as well. St. Francis de Sales made St. Joseph the special Patron of the religious order he founded, the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2021 | Museum of the Visitation, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Source:https://www.musee-visitation.eu/publication/fees-des-re/ Waste sorting and eco-packaging are essential. Upcycling – that is, creating new objects from old ones – seems to be a novelty in fashion. In our so-called consumer society, it is sometimes...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 30, 2021 | Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History
April 2, 1787: The Superior of the Visitation of Annecy makes known to the whole Order the 5 visions of a Sister and from whom Jesus asked for a renewal of devotion to her Sacred Heart and the propagation of his worship. This is what triggered the creation and...