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....
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 25, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
“O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.” (Douay-Rheims Bible: Book of Wisdom, Chapter 4, verse 1) That which called forth this cry of admiration was the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 24, 2013 | Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Poverty St. Margaret Mary distinguished two kinds of poverty- exterior poverty, which consists in privation of goods of this world, and interior poverty, which is one with renouncement and detachment. It ought to have no limit but the poverty of the Lord in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 16, 2013 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Today October 16th we celebrate the Feast of our Saintly Sister, St. Margaret Mary, who received the revelations about the love of the Heart of Jesus. Our Sisters of the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community share their reflections: Feast of Saint Margaret Mary...