by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 8, 2021 | Events, MP3s, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Anne Goetze, Artist of the Pray to Love series on the Visitation Sisters, gave this lovely radio interview on many aspects of the Visitation Order. Listen here: https://parenting-matters.com/episode-36/
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 | Dec 12, 2020 | Advent, St. Jane de Chantal
Advent with St. Jane-Sunday ” The Son of God, to show us an example, came to humble Himself with an abjection the most admirable which not only can be, but can even be thought of; for you see the God of all Majesty, as it were forgetting and annihilating this supreme...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 28, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
December 8, 1602: Episcopal ordination of Saint Francis de Sales in the church of his baptism, in Thorens (Savoy). December 13, 1641: Birth in heaven of Saint Jane de Chantal at the monastery of the Visitation of Moulins, at the age of 69. December 17, 1887:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 27, 2020 | Advent, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
Advent begins this weekend. May these thoughts help prepare you for Christmas! Live+Jesus “I wish that we should be much taken up, this Advent, with thanking our Lord for His admirable Incarnation and coming into this world. Let us not be ungrateful for this....
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 24, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
Did you know that when St. Vincent de Paul spoke to his “daughters” of his new Congregation, the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, he used to take pleasure in giving them a characteristic title, namely, ” The...