by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2019 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy Founders were already inspired to realize the essential call of the Visitation to the Sacred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
On January 29, 2019 a new translation of the French biography on Sister Mary Martha Chambon, Visitandine, whose mission was to make known once again the Holy Wounds of our Crucified Savior, Jesus Christ, was published. It is a very readable and very moving account of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A festive diocesan time praying at the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy for three days. Thursday, May 30: Ascension Day; Friday, May 31: Feast of the Visitation; conference, show. Saturday, June 1: Recollection followed by an evening and a night for young people....
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2019 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation Saints
Saint Claude was a man of the heart, endowed with enormous sensitivity towards his neighbor. Since childhood he had a profound inclination towards the family, thinking one day of being able to form his own and “horrible aversion” for religious life. He...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2019 | St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Uncategorized, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
On this Feast of St. Bakhita, we continue our story about the Visitation Monastery of Milan and its central role in the efforts to rescue trafficked girls in the 1800’s. The rescue work of Fathers Olivieri and Verri was placed under the constant protection of...