by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 11, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
When have you experienced God’s “sweet mercies,” as Saint Francis talks about? How can punishments be “aromatized with the Divine sweetness?” Is this masochistic? Which saints come to mind who have embraced the pain necessarily associated...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
In October 2018 a famous young woman from the French Telethon Programming entered a Visitation Monastery near Nantes, France, Jeanne Pelat. Jeanne has suffered much physically in her 22 years but her faith is outstandingly strong. Her new book is all about the value...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord ek we are continuing Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God with the book 9, chapter 1, “Of The Union Of Our Will To That Divine Will Which Is Called The Will Of Good-Pleasure.” Nothing, except...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2019 | St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Uncategorized, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
On this Feast of St. Bakhita, we continue our story about the Visitation Monastery of Milan and its central role in the efforts to rescue trafficked girls in the 1800’s. The rescue work of Fathers Olivieri and Verri was placed under the constant protection of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 6, 2019 | Visitation History
Over the past several years, we have shared how the Visitation Monasteries in Europe in the 1800’s helped to house trafficked girls from the African continent, some who became student boarders and some, eventually, nuns....