by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2019 | Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Praise ! The universal Church unites every day with the hymns sung in her communities to the glory of her divine Bridegroom. She sings her Glory to God in the highest heaven and her followers sing: we praise you, Lord, we bless you, we give you thanks for your immense...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
On August 12th we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal The teaching of this mystic of the seventeenth century always resonates with such force in our time: it is through small things and the gift of self that one...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
An obscure mystic of the Sacred Heart, a Visitandine, and a “foundress”, Rosalie Albaret, or Sister Teresa of Jesus, was born in France in January of 1743, the youngest of 10 children, and eventually entered the Visitation Monastery of Avignon. Her dad was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
As we begin our Novena tomorrow in preparation for the Feast of the Sacred Heart on June 28, 2019, we will feature Visitation Sisters who have especially loved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and promoted this devotion. Of course we are quite familiar with St Margaret Mary...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2019 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
Here is a poor French Visitandine, of the rank of servants, who had the pains of the Passion. Daughter of honest merchants, Gertrude Elisabeth d’Origny was born in Troyes. Entering the monastery of Saint-Denis, near Paris, she spent her life in the kitchen and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 9, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
We began our Mystic of the Month series with Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis back in 2012. We return now with new information about her mystical experiences based on new scholarly research by Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS. Mary Theresa Chappuis was was born at Soyhieres,...