by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 12, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How are our crosses “sweet and full of consolation,” as St. Francis says? How can faith help us live securely amidst the storms and uncertainties of life? How can we belong entirely to God? In giving advice about speaking of her late husband, St. Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 8, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. This is her story. Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM was born in Warsaw on December 23, 1918, the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 7, 2021 | Events, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. Researching other available documents on this special Sister led to her report on wartime atrocities in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 5, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Discuss the ‘analogy of faith’ of Holy Scripture. What does this mean?If Scripture is so clear with regard to the matters of salvation, why do Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, etc. have such different interpretations of Scripture? If Scripture is so clear...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that...