by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 25, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
“O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.” (Douay-Rheims Bible: Book of Wisdom, Chapter 4, verse 1) That which called forth this cry of admiration was the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 24, 2013 | Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Poverty St. Margaret Mary distinguished two kinds of poverty- exterior poverty, which consists in privation of goods of this world, and interior poverty, which is one with renouncement and detachment. It ought to have no limit but the poverty of the Lord in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 22, 2013 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Yes, that’s the Sisters of the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community enjoying the Vocation Fair at Steubenville University this past Friday, October 18, where their Visitation display table attracted at least 100 young women. And across the huge pond of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 21, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
St. Teresa was not canonized a saint until the last year of St. Francis’ lifetime. Nonetheless, what did St. Francis de Sales see in the writings of St. Teresa of Avila? In the quote from above, what does St. Francis de Sales mean when he refers to St. Teresa’s...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 20, 2013 | Events, Sacred Heart, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
From Brooklyn Visitation website: Like spokes converging around a sacred circle, the flight and land paths of four women from Idaho, Tennessee, Upper New York State and New York City discerning a vocation met in the oasis of prayer of the Visitation Monastery of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 17, 2013 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Sisters of the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community at Georgetown Visitation Monastery travel today towards Steubenville Ohio in order to attend tomorrow’s Vocations Awareness Day at the Francisacan University of Steubenville....