by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
The faithIf our body lives on the food it assimilates, our soul, too, must live on a substance appropriate to the nobility of its nature, and that substance is faith. Faith must preside over all our judgments, inspire all our actions, dictate all our resolutions....
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 29, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of the Passion, or Beheading of St John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus. St Francis de Sales remarks about this Saint: I have often thought what was the greatest mortification of all the Saints in whose lives I have come across, and after several...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 16, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
The nuns of the monastery of the Visitation tell extraordinary stories. In particular, it was Sister Teresa Bourgeat who was the “chosen one” by the angelic messagesWe find the presence of the guardian angel in the life story of the venerable Mother...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2020 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
St. Jane de Chantal, as Superior and Foundress of the Visitation Nuns, had many occasions to write to her spiritual daughters. Her letters to those Sisters who were mystics or experiencing mystical favors exhibit her profound understanding of these souls. One of these...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
In the August 2020 issue of MAGNIFICAT, author Anthony Esolen writes of St. Jane de Chantal’s life and mentions one of her Visitation Sisters, Sister Claire Marie Francoise de Cusance. Who was this Visitandine, and what did St. Jane write to her? This religious...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2020 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why does growing in virtue entail the perseverance of many trials and tribulations? Why is patience such a key virtue in this pursuit of virtue? How can we avoid “over eagerness and agitation” with the sweetness of temper that Saint Francis mentions? Saint...