by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 7, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
You can access the website of our Holy Source, Visitation Monastery in Annecy, France, here: http://visitationannecy.org/
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 6, 2021 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News
While St Francis de Sales annual Feast is approaching on January 24th, a unique 400th anniversary is also looming, that of his passing into eternity in 1622, on the 28th of December. The entire Salesian world will be marking this anniversary in various ways. The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 4, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
January 1587: After having prayed the Memorare in front of the statue of Our Lady of Good Deliverance, Saint Francis de Sales is delivered from a deep mystical night. He was then a young student in Paris where the question of predestination was debated among...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 4, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
With all the uncertainty and vicissitudes that have come with 2020, how can we lean on the unchanging presence and promises of God our Heavenly Father?2. How can keeping our eyes fixed on eternity help us amidst all the fear mongering that has come with this past...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 3, 2021 | St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis de Sales , preaching in Paris on the day of Epiphany, took as the subject of his speech the majesty of the nascent Church. He called this festival one day of vocation, of offering, of light and love; he wanted each day of communion to be a day of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 2, 2021 | St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of St Basil and St Gregory. St Francis de Sales speaks of St Gregory in his Introduction to the Devout Life: ” St. Gregory Nazianzen tells his flock, how, walking along the seashore, he watched the waves as they washed up shells and sea weeds,...