by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Saint Jane de Chantal served the poor, marginalized and underprivileged all her life, both as wife and widow and as foundress of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary. She taught her Sisters to do the same. “St. Chantal’s daughters were not content with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2013 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
As we prepare for the Feast of St. Jane de Chantal Monday, August 12, we continue to marvel at the prophetic stance of her heart and that of her co-founder St Francis de Sales, towards the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 60 years before the revelations to Visitandine St....
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 6, 2013 | Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
Part 1 As the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary , St Jane de Chantal, approaches on August 12, we turn to our Holy Mother’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to understand more deeply the mission of her monastic vocation. Both she...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Therese Putigny was born March 22 1803 in Eply, a village not far from the Metz Visitation. Her father was an honest farmer and her mother a model woman of virtue. At the young age of 4, Therese already had a great gift of prayer, though carrying the normal faults of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Catherine Putigny, VHM Visitandine of Metz Part 1 The outstanding uniqueness of this lay Sister of the Metz, France Visitation Monastery was her devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Jesus. “One day, whilst she was praying in the tribune, she thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Pope Francis has challenged young people to be missionaries and go out to all the world with the Gospel. St. Francis de Sales’ own life provides the how-to! “Let us attempt to trace the portrait of the evangelizer such that Francis de Sales was in the...