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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 13, 2024 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Becoming what God wants In this chapter, we will particularly follow our blessed Father attentive to the designs of divine Providence on his little Institute which has reached the age where it will take its definitive form. The previous course had followed his...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 25, 2024 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
Having reached maturity of years and virtue, St. Chantal lost St. Francis de Sales and found St. Vincent de Paul. The first directed her for eighteen years, the second for twenty. The one saw the rising of this beautiful star ; the other assisted at its setting and,...