by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 28, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
While Labor Day did not exist in St Francis de Sales time or culture, he did have thoughts about the tradition of work, and wrote about it in several of his writings. Here we quote from his Treatise on the Love of God. Perhaps these words can provide a meditation for...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 16, 2013 | Events, Visitation News
We American Visitandines congratulate our dear friend, Mother Jane Margaret, of our Visitation Monastery, Waldron, England, on the occasion of her 25th Jubilee as a Visitandine! You have our prayers and we hope your day was special and your year blessed! Read the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 14, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Yesterday we received the news that Pope Francis will consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary this coming October. “In response to the desire of Holy Father Francis, the Statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, venerated in the Little Chapel of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, YEAR OF FAITH
Salesian Week 2013, will walk in the footsteps of the Year of Faith.A week to discover, pray, reflect with Saint François de Sales and Holy Jeanne de Chantal in the Basilica of the Visitation Every day, a Mass at 630PM in the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2013 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Today Deacon Rudi Schwartzkopf OSFS is ordained as a Priest of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, in his hometown of Toledo Ohio! And in the new Visitation Community, the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, this has been an amazing two month journey for the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News
“Cordiality is the outward expression of one’s deepest commitment to do all in one’s power- even if that involves suffering and pain- to insure the spiritual, material and human well-being of the one who is embraced. The brief, warm and very tender...