by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Let this beautiful month of June dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus be for all the guards of honor, and all their relatives, a source of joy, love and peace! Selfishness … or charity! “Behold this Heart which has so loved men, that it has spared nothing,...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 26, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vocation news
St. Jane de Chantal, Foundress of the Visitation Order, spoke about the virtue of Modesty in her “Answers”, p 182 “My dear Sisters, the way to practice this well is to keep ourselves always in the presence of God. Modesty is the ornament of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 18, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, Year of Consecrated Life
How does a Visitandine live in the power of the Holy Spirit in the charism bequeathed to the Visitation Order? We can get glimpses by meditating upon the Gospel passage that Visitandines live by, the visit of Mary and Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke. The mystery of...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 9, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
We have been informed of or have discovered three new works of interest to Visitandines and friends! ...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 6, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Mary, the “Lowly Servant”, is Pleasing to the Father Happy month of Mary! The practice of this specific month of Marian devotion and May crowning is believed to have been practiced since the 17th century, although devotion to the Blessed Mother...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 30, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
Dear Honor Guards, In this month dedicated to the Virgin Mary, our Founder invites us to live our hour of attendance as the example of “one who said ‘yes’ and started running to fulfill the Will of God!” Goodwill “I am the handmaid of the...