by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
We are the Church, the Body of Christ. Thus, the Church does not belong to us, but it belongs to Jesus as His Bride. What is God trying to teach us with this reality?At times you might run into non-Catholic friends who disagree with the idea of Peter being the first...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 18, 2015 | Discernment with DeSales
The Founder of the Visitation Sisters, Bishop St. Francis de Sales, held deep theological positions on the concept of freedom. We will manifest his thinking during the “Fortnight for Freedom” through Fr. Eunan McDonnell’s book, The Concept of Freedom in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 16, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The Church Is a Sign and Instrument of Communion with God Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership On Sunday we will chat about being Church. His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., released a pastoral letter on Pentecost Sunday (May 24,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 15, 2015 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
What does this mean that by dying with Christ we are reborn with a new identity? This new identity is inherintly linked to the life of the Holy Spirit in us. What does this teach us about conversion not being a one-time-event but an on-going event in our lives? As...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 11, 2015 | Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be observed on Friday June 12 th this year. The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy...