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 12, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
Today, August 12th, is the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, St. Jane de Chantal, who, with St. Francis de Sales, began the first Visitation Monastery in 1610. We Visitandines honor St. Jane as our Holy Mother. You too can invoke her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2019 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
FEAST OF SAINT JEANNE DE CHANTAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2019 by Père Philippe MULLER Translated from the French by this website We know St. Francis de Sales well. Jeanne de Chantal has long remained in his shadow. Yet she was an exceptional woman and her life was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
In the Introduction to the book, Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: Letters of Spiritual Direction, we read: “Jane de Chantal continued with her work of overseeing the large family of religious to whom she was the chief spiritual mother. She wrote ardent letters to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
Spiritual Light from St. Jane de Chantal $ 1.00 A BRAND NEW COMPANION BOOKLET TO GOLDEN COUNSELS OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES. This collection of short, practical thoughts from St. Jane de Chantal provides the reader with a unique and down-to-earth approach to...
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...