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...
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...