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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 13, 2024 | Events, Photos & videos, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Abiding Momently with Jesus in the Way of St Francis de Sales View the video below The 3rd Annual Fr John Graden, O.S.F.S. Memorial Lecture
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 19, 2024 | Formation Q&A of St. Jane, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
by Sr Marie Pierre The offering of the daughters of the Visitation In this Institute where one applies oneself “gently to the exercise of divine love”, it is by a total stripping that one offers oneself to his fire on “the mount of lovers”. In the text entitled...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 15, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
by Sister Marie-Pierre Dying to all other love to live to that of Jesus This title will be our key to reading the spiritual history of the Visitation in 1616. A decisive year, not only for the legal transformation of the Institute but also for the spiritual journey of...