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 20, 2020 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Vocation news
A new book entitled “When Your Partner Loses His Faith” by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook explains how the Visitation Sisters of Minneapolis opened her up to Salesian spirituality and in particular, the process of turning something lost into something...
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 | Jul 10, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The Visitation Superior of Annecy speaks to us about Hope: It is part of our life, of our prayer. What do we hope for? We hope for a beautiful flowering, good weather, healing of a person, dynamism in our comunity, conversion, change … When this hope does not...