by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Dear all, summer continues! Let’s go on beautiful feasts so dear to our hearts, those of Mary that we honor especially this month.Mary always leads us to her Son, She is the surest way to meet him. But Mary, the all Pure, challenges us on the way we behave.If we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal
These reflections are taken from a talk by Mother Anne Marie Babin VHM, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Annecy, France in the 1860’s. Day one- Wed August 3 “Look and do according to the model which has been shown you. Does it not seem that Our Lord...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, our Holy Mother, is celebrated on August 12. This year we will present a “novena” to spiritually prepare for the Feast, in a slightly different form. Meditations taken from a talk by a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
August 3, 1903: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Nun of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We always have to move forward between two pitfalls: self-contempt and self-esteem. To the one who would despise his own life, Francis de Sales responds: “Don’t forget that God has given you gifts, that he has placed qualities in you! “And to him who...