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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 10, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Spreading the Love of the Sacred Heart Involved “Sisterly” Teamwork Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership While many in the Church look forward to the feast of St. Margaret Mary Alocoque, few people know of the close friendship the saint had with a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 10, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
Blessed Louis Brisson, OSFS, the Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was beatified a year ago, September 2012. Today his Feast is celebrated in the Diocese of Troyes, France and in the Congregations he founded, the Oblate Fathers and Brothers, and Oblate...