by Sister Susan Marie | May 25, 2025 | Events, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
On the Sacred Heart Encyclical 2024 Source: 23 maggio 2025 – don Ezio Bolis: “Dilexit nos” Transcript, translated Good evening everyone welcome to this meeting I have the joy and honor of introducing tonight’s speaker Don Ezio Bolis Donezzi is...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 24, 2025 | Events, Photos & videos, Sacred Heart, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
The relics of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque were welcomed on the afternoon of Friday, May 23, at the Visitation Monastery on Via Briantea in Como. A Visitandine nun who lived in the 17th century, Saint Margaret had mystical experiences that she recounted, at the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
April 2, 1787: The Superior of the Visitation of Annecy informs the entire Order of the five visions of a Sister whose name she withholds, and to whom Jesus asked for a renewal of devotion to his Heart and the spread of his cult. This is what triggered the creation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 20, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
4 – Maturity and fruitfulness Testament The little Institute, to reach its full maturity and multiply, will still benefit from the solicitude of its Founders to advance towards its future. Our blessed Father has only four more years to spend here below. Our holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 31, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
January 1587: After praying the “Remember” 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 being debated...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 16, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
1617 and 1618 1617 was a year marked for our holy Founders by painful personal trials, the difficulties in Moulins and those of the construction of the monastery continued, while the steps in Rome for the transformation of the Institute languished. Divine pedagogy...