by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 24, 2024 | Visitation History
Danger to which our Sisters run by the encounter with the troops. Almost as soon as they left Metz, they were extremely frightened to see the army of the Swedes, barbarous and cruel people, especially for those consecrated to God. They used the Lord’s help and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 24, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Treatise on the Love of God Our holy Founder is constantly interrupted in the writing of his work, which puts our holy Mother in difficulty, she said to him (Correspondence I Letter n°21): “I am greatly mortified when I know that you are being diverted to write in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 23, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Some memories of the Sisters during these childhood years of our Institute. The community had welcomed a very simple young person, Claude Fardel, out of charity. At the time, an old building was being demolished and she had been tasked with collecting tiles. As the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 22, 2024 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation News
The Second Monastery of the Visitation celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of the Mother Superior M. Nieves with all my heart CONGRATULATIONS! By: Ángel Gutiérrez Sanz | Source: Catholic.net There have always been great souls, worthy of admiration,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 22, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
An extract from the preface to volume XXV of the Works of our holy Founder will serve as an introduction: “The love of God is the distinctive character of Saint Francis de Sales; but there also lies the originality of his works (…). From its birth, the Visitation...