by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 12, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
Today, August 12th, is the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, St. Jane de Chantal, who, with St. Francis de Sales, began the first Visitation Monastery in 1610. We Visitandines honor St. Jane as our Holy Mother. You too can invoke her...
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 7, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
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by Editor | Nov 8, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Chapter VI To you it has been given to know the Mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven. (St Mark, IV -11) The Confidence of Jesus – The Flight From the beginning of her religious life, Sister Marie-Angélique frequently heard, in the most intimate places of herself, in...
by Editor | Nov 7, 2018 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints, Vocation news
Chapter V “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! (St Luke, XII-49) The nun The Community which, in 1906, welcomed the young professed coming out of the novitiate, was going to have to help her build up the patience and ...