by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
1erNovember 1720:Monsignor de Belsunce consecrates the city and diocese of Marseille to the Sacred Heart. November 6, 1672: Profession of Saint Margaret Mary (mystical religious of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, who received from Christ the mission to establish...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 3, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Dear guards of honor, As if to associate with the greyness of the news, autumn seems already settled. But no matter, even if we don’t see it, we are certain that the sun is still shining somewhere. It is the same with Jesus, invisible to our eyes but eternally...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
dear all, After a few summer weeks of relative carelessness, we are already plunged back into the constraints and uncertainties of the world. Rather than indulging in worries of all kinds and sometimes irrational fears, let us plunge our hearts into the One of Jesus,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Dear all, summer continues! Let’s go on beautiful feasts so dear to our hearts, those of Mary that we honor especially this month.Mary always leads us to her Son, She is the surest way to meet him. But Mary, the all Pure, challenges us on the way we behave.If we...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
August 3, 1903: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Nun of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
In this summer weather, we can admire nature but also sometimes feel overwhelmed by the vagaries of the weather. We then take the full measure of our smallness and our place in creation. This should be the case for our position vis-à-vis God. There are so many graces...