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...
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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
On August 12th we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal The teaching of this mystic of the seventeenth century always resonates with such force in our time: it is through small things and the gift of self that one...