by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2025 | Visitation History
If Claude La Colombière was canonized in 1992, it is because he has something special to bring to us today. The links between the message of Jesus in Paray and Saint Claude are essential: We cannot grasp the value of this without referring to what he experienced here...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2025 | Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The prayer Lord Jesus, you revealed to St Margaret Mary your Heart, which is so passionate with love for all men and for each one in particular. Today, you invite us to draw from the source of your Heart, which remains open more than ever. In this sacrament of Love...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation News
For many years this website has researched into the history of the Visitation Monasteries in Europe who were privileged to be part of the rescue of trafficked women in the 1800’s. In 2014 we featured Marie Kaisale, who was rescued and placed in the Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Vovete et reddite Domino, “Vow ye and pay unto the Lord your God,” a text from the Twenty-fifth Psalm, is the inscription to be found directly over the entrance door of the Georgetown Convent of the Visitation. To vow and then to pay unto the Lord! To vow,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
2 February: Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a day of prayer for religious men and women of apostolic life.February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude La Colombière (Jesuit, apostle of devotion to the Sacred Heart and spiritual director of Saint...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 20, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
4 – Maturity and fruitfulness Testament The little Institute, to reach its full maturity and multiply, will still benefit from the solicitude of its Founders to advance towards its future. Our blessed Father has only four more years to spend here below. Our holy...