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...
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,...