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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 8, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
While St. Margaret Mary was the privileged recipient of the revelation by Jesus Christ of His Sacred Heart, several other Vistandines of her era were also inspired through her influence to a great and apostolic sharing of the devotion to the Love of Jesus. One such...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 25, 2013 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Saints
St. Vincent de Paul’s Feast Day is Friday September 27th and the Visitation Order celebrates it especially because of his friendship with St. Francis de Sales.In fact, after St. Francis de Sales entered eternity, St. Vincent became the spiritual director of St....
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Carmela Aprile We have a most unique story to unfold about this contemporary mystic, her relationships to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Visitation Monastery of Rosolini! Here is a woman, born in 1878 in poverty, widowed young, who buys an image of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary follows the Rule of St. Augustine, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ruleaug.html chosen by our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, when we were erected into a formal Order after several years as a simple congregation in...