by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2011 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Waiting eagerly for the release of this movie on Leonie Martin, (sister of St Therese), Visitandines in the U.S. and elsewhere are grateful for its premiere on August 1st in Michigan. Filmed partially in our Monastery of the Visitation in Toledo...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Salesian Spirituality challenges the human person to become holy- to become a saint. It is often described as a spirituality of the heart. The author of St. Mark’s Gospel writes, ” You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 3, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In the Salesian tradition developing a life of prayer is essential to Living Jesus because it is modeled on the example of Jesus who often went apart to pray. St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal imitated the example of Jesus. Prayer was for them a loving...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2011 | "Living Jesus" booklet, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
We are beginning a new series of reflections on Salesian Spirituality with excerpts from the “Living Jesus” booklet. Today we begin with: LOVING GOD WITH LIBERTY OF SPIRIT A fundamental assumption in Salesian Spirituality is that the person created in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2011 | Vis Alum, Visitation News
On Saturday July 30th Mrs. Alicia Vernazzani, an Alum of the Visitation Academy in Brooklyn, had the rare privilege of an appointment to visit the Visitation Sisters in the Vatican, with her husband and two young children. The visit was “beyond words”,...