by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 5, 2020 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary was founded by St Francis de Sales and St Jane de Chantal on June 6, 1610. That makes 410 years old on June 6, 2020! How quickly the years fly! Here are some memories from the 400th anniversary, 10 years ago, when international...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 2, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
To prepare for the Novena and subsequent Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19th, we offer a retrospective of posts on the Sacred Heart of Jesus published over the years on this website. Enjoy and profit spiritually! St. Francis de Sales & the Sacred...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 1, 2020 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Since God went out of his way to lovingly create us and take the effort to offer his life for us to redeem us, why do we still emphasize that we are ‘unworthy’? Did God create us just to seem generous, to be acknolwedged as merciful?2. As Saint Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 31, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
The primitive, poetical and naïve concept of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament had a particular impact and influence on the ways in which Francis de Sales pictures the Holy Spirit. He seems to have found the “unknown God” more accessible, more knowable in some ways...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Here is the month so dear to our heart, that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! We do not yet know how we will concretely live this Solemnity but we want to believe that the Spirit of Pentecost will have breathed hard enough and removed all the barriers imposed on our life...