by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 4, 2021 | Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Every year since 2013 around the Feast of St. Bakhita we have researched, discovered and written about trafficked girls that were rescued and sent to Visitation Monasteries and boarding schools in the 1800’s. This year we will share about some young women that were...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2021 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
February 3rd is the Feast of St. Blaise for whose intercession we traditionally ask for protection against diseases of the throat, with a ritualistic blessing. Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane, was cured through his intercession. Here is the story, from Emily...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Year of Consecrated Life
Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2020) In today’s Gospel we experience Mary and Joseph presenting the infant Jesus, the son of God, in the Temple. St. Francis de Sales notes: The Eastern Rite calls this feast the “Presentation of the Son of God in the Temple,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
Anna Michelotti was born in Annecy in Haute-Savoie (at the time the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia), on 29 August 1843, the third child of Gian Michele Telesforo Michelotti, a Piedmontese emigrant from Almese and Pierina Mugnier-Serand from Annecy. She is...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2021 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
If nothing can put asunder what God has joined, how is it that people of belief know that salvation is not an automatic thing? St. Francis emphasizes unity in this letter, but he stresses that this unity is found in God and in Jesus Christ. What does this mean? Why is...