by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 30, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, February 2, 2014 is also dedicated as the World Day for Consecrated Life. St. Francis de Sales spoke some of his thoughts about this Feast. In his sermon on Feb. 2, 1622 this Founder of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 29, 2014 | St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news
This extract from the Preface of the Constitutions of the Visitation Order, written by our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, captures the inner disposition of this extraordinary Doctor of the Church, toward the Institute he was inspired to found.
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 28, 2014 | Events
Well, no responses to our question: When and where was a Visitation Monastery planned for Northern California? Which city and area? So here’s the answer! Monastery of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Piedmont Hills of California, San Francisco,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room
The story of the Visitation – after which our Order is named – focuses on two unborn children, Jesus and John the Baptist In the Bible, children were seen as a blessing from God, and infertility was considered a curse. Why has the attitude towards children...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 26, 2014 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
Architectural and urban study of convents and churches built in France for the nuns of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, according to the architectural style designed by its founders in 1610 , Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal . Back Cover Founded by...