by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
We have arrived at our Final Day of preparation for the Feast of St. Jane de Chantal which is tomorrow, August 12th, by having meditated on her words of guidance for those discerning a religious vocation. There is a prayer, and a hope, Visitation Sisters have when...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
Candidates for religious life have many expectations and many hope to be well trained by a saintly Sister. St. Jane outlines the style your Formator should have as she guides you after you have entered the community. In her Answers, page 261, St. Jane states, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
In your discernment, have you considered the reality of living community life? St. Jane de Chantal, our Foundress, answers a subtle question put to her by her Sisters by drawing on our Founder, St Francis de Sales’ insights, in her Answers. The question put to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
In discerning a vocation, sometimes one’s imagination comes into play, thinking about how life may be for the candidate after entrance. What will it be like to have a Formator? How about prayer? What does formation mean anyway? St Jane de Chantal, Foundress of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
St. Jane de Chantal, as Foundress of the Visitation Order, could not be too careful in whom she accepted into the novitiate. She said in her Answers, page 306, “The happiness and preservation of our Congregation depend on the good choice of subjects, and on the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 6, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
St. Jane de Chantal, whose Feast is August 12th, was a spiritual Mother and guide par excellence. In her Answers, St. Jane shares traits and characteristics both discerner and guide should look for as a candidate considers religious life, especially as a Visitation...