by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2012 | Visitation News, Vocation news
On Thursday, July 26th 2012, the Feast of Sts. Joachim and Ann, a Novice from the Visittaion Monastery in Brooklyn pronounced her first vows. Read about it here: When Infinite Love Claims Our Hearts When Infinite Love Claims Our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero, 1885-1915 This Italian Visitandine did not have a long life; her vocation in the Monastery only lasted nine years, but in those short years she developed, with the grace of God, an intense prayer life, but humbly simple. In giving an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2012 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach
This interesting topic drew in a number of chatters and here is a healthy representation of last night’s dicussion: Sister : Welcome to tonight’s chat session. How do we know God’s Will? Do we sometimes ask for signs? Even Ven Brisson did!...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2012 | Events, Visitation News
From July 17-20, 2012 Vistandines from the Councils of the two American Federations met in the Monastery of the Visitation in Mobile AL to discuss issues and opportunities concerning the Order. Joining them was the Auxiliary Religious Assistant. In between meetings,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 26, 2012 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Part 2:Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis De Sales Reluctance The Very Reverend Father Brisson was professor at the Diocesan Seminary of Troyes and confessor to the Visitation Monastery in the same city. For more than thirty years he was daily importuned by the...