by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM was Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Troyes, France in the 1800’s and encourager of Blessed Louis Brisson to found the Oblates of St Francis de Sales. She gave many deep talks to her Visitandine community. On one...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis gave many instructions to her Visitandine daughters. We begin a significant lesson for Lent. “Our Holy Founder says that our abode is on Calvary. To walk in this way we must follow the Savior. We shall be instructed and aided if...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
The title of this post is taken from a talk on February 10, 1849 by Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, VHM, Superior in a Visitation Monastery at a time when the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Pius IX, had to flee Rome. Her advice is startlingly relevant for today! Below is her...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 12, 2013 | LENT, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Troyes in the mid-1800’s, was also the inspiration for the foundation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales through Blessed Louis Brisson. Her wisdom was profound and influenced many people...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
You may be familiar with St. Josephine Bakhita,( 1869 – 8 February 1947) a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy, living and working there for 45 years. In 2000, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church But there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Blessed Louis Brisson OSFS, the Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was beatified on September 22, 2012. At his Beatification Mass, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Causes of Saints, said that “The Church needs holy priests like Blessed Louis...