by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
dear all, After a few summer weeks of relative carelessness, we are already plunged back into the constraints and uncertainties of the world. Rather than indulging in worries of all kinds and sometimes irrational fears, let us plunge our hearts into the One of Jesus,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History
7 September 1688: Blessing of the first chapel dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the monastery of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, at the request of Saint Margaret Mary. September 14, 1594: Saint Francis de Sales begins the mission of the Protestant...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 30, 2022 | Visitation History, Visitation News
On Saturday August 27, 2022, an election for Superior was held at Georgetown Visitation Monastery. The Holy Spirit gave the community as new Mother Superior, Mother Anne Francis N’ganga. Please pray for her triennial and also in gratitude for Sister Mary...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Uncategorized
VisitationSR (Guest): How can we “cling too jealously to the purity of faith,” as St. Francis describes it?How can we be better at ignoring/avoiding temptations, when they almost seem to saturate our everyday lives?St. Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Saint Francis de Sales and education: a pedagogy attentive to the possibilities of each A fruitful life If Don Bosco chose Saint Francis de Sales as a model, it was first for a “pastoral” motive. But not only. He also had the intuition that this bishop had...