by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 27, 2021 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
March 5, 1604: Saint Françis de Sales preaches Lent in Dijon and meets the Baroness de Chantal there. It is the start of one of the most beautiful spiritual friendships in the history of the Church. He will be able to say later: “The Visitation is the fruit of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
Dear friends- Guards of honor, Even though we are in Lent, a path of interior purification, the words of our foundress, written over a century and a half ago, once again resonate in a very particular way with our current affairs. Let us know how to read them in their...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2021 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
St.. Claude de la Colombiere, whose Feast is February 15, was St. Margaret Mary’s spiritual director. His sibling was also a Visitandine, like his spiritual daughter! Let’s go a few leagues from Lyon to breathe the scent of a virtue well hidden from the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 4, 2021 | Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Every year since 2013 around the Feast of St. Bakhita we have researched, discovered and written about trafficked girls that were rescued and sent to Visitation Monasteries and boarding schools in the 1800’s. This year we will share about some young women that were...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
Anna Michelotti was born in Annecy in Haute-Savoie (at the time the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia), on 29 August 1843, the third child of Gian Michele Telesforo Michelotti, a Piedmontese emigrant from Almese and Pierina Mugnier-Serand from Annecy. She is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2021 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Jesus tells us that he will recognize before his Father only those who have recognized and confessed him before men. Certainly, He knew that it would cost us a lot, that we would have to make this profession of faith in the face of a hostile and corrupt generation,...