by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news, YEAR OF FAITH
We continue our “behind the scenes” visit to a Visitation Monastery Chapter Room where the Superior gives fervent little talks to her Sisters during Holy Week. Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM said,” This last week of Lent should bring us new...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 18, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
The Solemnity of St. Joseph, March 19th is always celebrated with great joy in the Visitation Order. Why? He is a major reference to us in our conception of religious life. We are invited to imitate St. Joseph in our practice of the virtues, specific virtues that St....
by Vis Editor | Mar 11, 2013 | Guard of Honor, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Photos & videos, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Our new video highlights six Visitation Mystics (Video script) Jesus Christ chose the Visitation Order of Holy Mary to be the sanctuary of His Sacred Heart. He has revealed to His Visitandine Spouses the intimacies of His Love throughout four centuries. We present six...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 7, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
The latest issue of the ICSS Newsletter is a wonderful testament to Salesian scholars and the recently beatified Blessed Louis Brisson, OSFS, Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Full color photographs of the beatification ceremony in September 2012...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sr. Mary de Sales Galerne VHM, did not have a long life, living only 37 years, from 1895 to 1932. But this French Visitation Nun managed to grow interiorly from a young person indifferent to religion in her early youth to one filled with profound spiritual wisdom,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 19, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
From Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM: ” Go before a crucifix to detest misuse of the graces of God which we have appropriated to ourselves and which we have used as if they were our own, because we have not sufficiently been unbent and enlivened. I know well...