by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 21, 2015 | LENT
Simplicity of Mind and Heart Byline: Sr. Mary Berchmans Hannan Recently I received a pamphlet describing the Visitation Basilica in Annecy from a Visitation family who had a most enjoyable visit to this most beautiful spot in God’s creation. I was struck by a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2015 | LENT, St. Francis de Sales
Rev. Robert Mc Evoy’s Way of the Cross with St. Francis de Sales can be found here: http://web1.desales.edu/assets/salesian/library/SalesianStations-McEvoy.pdf
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2015 | LENT
A Visitandine Lent with Mother Chappuis Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Troyes in the mid-1800’s, was also the inspiration for the foundation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales through Blessed Louis Brisson. Her wisdom...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2015 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines
This week’s meditation takes the form of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, a devotional that Our Lord encouraged Sister Mary Martha Chambon VHM, a mystic of the Order, to say and share. On a certain Sunday in Lent, her Beloved Lord came to her and said,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2015 | Guard of Honor, LENT, Saintly Visitandines
Holy Lent! May your resolutions be sweet to your soul and prepare you for the joy of Easter! In March we celebrate St Joseph. We offer a meditation of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud about work: “You shall eat bread by the sweat of your brow.”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2015 | LENT, Visitation Saints
St. Margaret Mary was Novice Directress for a time and one Lent, she suggested to her novices to follow these Lenten instructions, which may give all of us a practical way to live this Holy season: “Behold, my very dear Sisters, a little challenge, as I think...