by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 26, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Jane de Chantal: a life for the poor at the time of the wars of religion “I have always believed that in the person of these poor I wipe the wounds of Jesus Christ,” said St. Jane de Chantal, the founder of the Order of the Visitation.Jane-Françoise...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 25, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
From her childhood, Jane de Chantal is described as “beautiful, cheerful, simple, clairvoyant, determined and deeply applied to her duties as a Christian”. “The perfect lady” first saw her faith in service to the poor and the sick. But after...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
On August 12th we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal The teaching of this mystic of the seventeenth century always resonates with such force in our time: it is through small things and the gift of self that one...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2019 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy Founders were already inspired to realize the essential call of the Visitation to the Sacred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 20, 2019 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
on Sunday June 23, 2019, from 1030AM until 5PM, to celebrate its 400th anniversary! Through the corridors of the building, posters and maps retrace the history of the Order and its nuns. Also on display are engraved plaques of the Sacred Heart, pewter pots made by the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A festive diocesan time praying at the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy for three days. Thursday, May 30: Ascension Day; Friday, May 31: Feast of the Visitation; conference, show. Saturday, June 1: Recollection followed by an evening and a night for young people....