by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 21, 2020 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
An appeal! As we approach the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul on September 27th, we appeal to all Salesian scholars to consider a study of the letters extant of St. Jane de Chantal to St Vincent de Paul, and vice versa, for a further development of the understanding of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 14, 2020 | St. Jane de Chantal
Don’t we mean “JANE AND FRANCIS” ? No, as we approach the Feast of St Vincent de Paul, two weeks from now, we want to share another insight about the spiritual relationship of St Jane de Chantal and St Vincent de Paul, her director after St Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 12, 2020 | St. Jane de Chantal
St. Jane de Chantal’s Feast is celebrated on August 12th and this Foundress of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary demonstrates characteristics that can model responses for us in our own times. We are living through the Covid-19 pandemic; she lived courageously...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
This post is the third in our mini-series on St. Jane’s Letters to her Mystical Visitandine daughters. St Jane writes to an early Superior who experienced mystical favors: LXXXV.To Mother Anne Marguerite Clément, Superior at Montargis. Vive ✠ Jésus! Annecy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2020 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
St. Jane de Chantal, as Superior and Foundress of the Visitation Nuns, had many occasions to write to her spiritual daughters. Her letters to those Sisters who were mystics or experiencing mystical favors exhibit her profound understanding of these souls. One of these...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal
In the August 2020 issue of MAGNIFICAT, author Anthony Esolen writes of St. Jane de Chantal’s life and mentions one of her Visitation Sisters, Sister Claire Marie Francoise de Cusance. Who was this Visitandine, and what did St. Jane write to her? This religious...