by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 14, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What Can You Learn as a Discerner? Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about the disposition of discernment. In the discernment for a possible Visitandine vocation, St. Jane de Chantal, our Foundress, whose feast was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today we celebrate one of the two great wellsprings of Salesian spirituality in the person of Jane Frances de Chantal: wife, mother, widow, founder, administrator, negotiator and friend. In his preface to the book The Spirit of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal as Shown...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
We have arrived at our Final Day of preparation for the Feast of St. Jane de Chantal which is tomorrow, August 12th, by having meditated on her words of guidance for those discerning a religious vocation. There is a prayer, and a hope, Visitation Sisters have when...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
How will we answer to God for our every thought? In James 3:1-12 we are taught about the power of the tongue (for good and for evil). Connecting with our chat a couple weeks ago, how is the tongue a reminder that God is concerned for the smallest details of our life?...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
Candidates for religious life have many expectations and many hope to be well trained by a saintly Sister. St. Jane outlines the style your Formator should have as she guides you after you have entered the community. In her Answers, page 261, St. Jane states, in...