by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 9, 2016 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Our second excerpt of a book called An Abridgement of the Interior Spirit of the Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary may assist those discerning a vocation to our way of life, or others interested in growing in their inner spiritual life. We encourage your...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2016 | Guard of Honor, Saintly Visitandines
Christ is risen, Christ gives us life and pours waves of mercy! What can we miss when we become aware of this extraordinary gift? Our foundress, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, offers us this reflection for this month. The gift of God! “If you knew the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 23, 2016 | LENT, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught complete abandonment to the Father when He was on the Cross. This Holy Week we will once again hear His cry “My God, My God, why Have You abandoned Me?” Visitandine Mother Ponnet sheds light on this act of abandonment for our...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 6, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, Saintly Visitandines
The inspiration of our Holy Founder St. Francis de Sales, to form a congregation of women after the meek and humble Heart of Jesus, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, have drawn women from the very beginning who would be given the grace to have merciful hearts...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2016 | Holy Year of Mercy, LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
The Jubilee Year of Mercy which Holy Father Pope Francis has initiated can be experienced in many different ways and we would like to share one of the Visitandine possibilities of living it out during this season of Lent. In older posts we have written about the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2016 | LENT, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
This Lent we Visitandines invite you to contemplate the Stations of the Cross according to Mother Angelica Alvarez Icaza, Mystic and Foundress of our Mexican City Monastery, pondering her thoughts about the suffering Face of Jesus. First Station Jesus is Condemned to...