by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 29, 2019 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Dear friends, guards of honor, Holy feast for all of the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary! July is the month traditionally dedicated to the Precious Blood. This devotion reminds us of the infinite mercy of Jesus who shed his Blood to save us. We can...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2019 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy Founders were already inspired to realize the essential call of the Visitation to the Sacred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
An obscure mystic of the Sacred Heart, a Visitandine, and a “foundress”, Rosalie Albaret, or Sister Teresa of Jesus, was born in France in January of 1743, the youngest of 10 children, and eventually entered the Visitation Monastery of Avignon. Her dad was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
As we begin our Novena tomorrow in preparation for the Feast of the Sacred Heart on June 28, 2019, we will feature Visitation Sisters who have especially loved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and promoted this devotion. Of course we are quite familiar with St Margaret Mary...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 3, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We have spent a lot of time talking about divesting ourselves of affections and so on, and here Saint Francis encourages to have them. How do we strike the balance here? How do we desire not to have them and yet at the same time try to have them? This reflection...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 31, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality
Today, May 31st, we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation! ” St. Francis’s treatment of the mystery of the Visitation shows his realism and practicality that take the form of his conviction that the Visitation is not an event consigned to the past, but...