by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 30, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, February 2, 2014 is also dedicated as the World Day for Consecrated Life. St. Francis de Sales spoke some of his thoughts about this Feast. In his sermon on Feb. 2, 1622 this Founder of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2014 | St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
This extract from the Preface of the Constitutions of the Visitation Order, written by our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, captures the inner disposition of this extraordinary Doctor of the Church, toward the Institute he was inspired to found.
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2014 | Vocation news
On this Feast of St. Francis de Sales, the first pre-postulant has been accepted by the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, at the Georgetown Visitation Monastery. Read the entire article here: Feast of Saint Francis de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 4, 2014 | Discernment with DeSales, Visitation News, Vocation news
Live + Jesus! Our Lady’s gift to the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community at Georgetown Visitation Monastery for this New Year is Adrienne who is beginning her discernment program. Keri Cole who will return shortly from her family visit will become a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 18, 2013 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
At any time in your life, have you been stirred by the message of St. Francis de Sales or St. Jane de Chantal? Fascinated by their lives? Drawn to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, or interested in the apparitions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque? Does an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, YEAR OF FAITH
Chat: (November 24, 2013: Solemnity of Christ the King) “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” St. Francis de Sales tells us in the Introduction to the Devout Life: “Consider the eternal love...