by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 9, 2013 | Visitation Saints
November 18th will be the Feast Day of seven Blessed Visitation Nuns who were martyred for their faith during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and beatified in 1998. We introduce you to each one during this month: Blessed Maria Gabriela Born in the picturesque and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 5, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
Mother Anne Marguerite Clement VHM An early Visitandine and Foundress of the Visitation of Melun Born in Franche -Comte, May 7, 1593 to John Clement and Marguerite Bellin Anne -Marguerite Clement showed as a child ardent piety and founded a small organization to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 2, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
The Life of the Venerable Maria Margit Bogner, a Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary of Erd, Hungary 1905–1933 A Violet in the Odor of Sanctity Translated from the Spanish by a Visitandine Declared venerable June 28, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI Spanish edition by...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 30, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Religious Vows Help Us to Better Imitate Christ The Eucharistic Christ is the focus not just of the religious, but of all faithful Catholics. Due to their vows however, the religious are better able to imitate their savior. But why poverty, chastity and obedience? In...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 30, 2013 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, Visitandine Foundress of the Guard of Honor/Hour of Presence of the Sacred Heart, can prepare us for the upcoming Feast of the Holy Souls, November 2. She wrote: “At this time of the year when the Church mentions...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 26, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
St. Margaret Mary suggested a view of the vows and Evangelical Counsels in a deeply Eucharistic light. It is before the Divine Tabernacle that she invites us to come, asking that our obedience should be imitating the obedience of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament....