by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Events, Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A Jubilee Year for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary has been announced as opening October 16 2019 and ending October 17, 2020! This is the year we celebrate the centenary of the canonization of Saint Margaret Mary, the Apostle of Jesus’ Sacred Heart. On...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 23, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
This year we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of a Visitation Monastery in Paris, France. The jubilee is highlighted at the Museum of the Visitation in Moulins, France with outstanding exhibits. Here we will share the story of the history of this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2019 | Events, Visitation History, Visitation News
Visitation Monastery Warsaw Yesterday a major event took place in the Warsaw Visitation Monastery Chapel- the funeral of a well known Polish Priest/Actor! With emotion and tears they remembered the late Fr. Kazimierz Orzechowski, his spiritual children –...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Did you know?- that St Francis de Sales, Founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary might have chosen St Martha as the congregation’s patron? Among the questions to be settled in the early days of Francis and Jane’s fledgling institute was its name. Several...
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...