by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
If you are a young woman in her 20’s or 30’s and have been pondering a vocation to the monastic, contemplative life, a Visitation community has been formed just for you! In June of 2013, the Second Federation of the Visitation in the United States began a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 13, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Reclaiming the Spiritual Aspect of Valentine’s Day Sign up: Living Jesus Chat — Membership One mark of saints is that they refuse to conform to the ways of the world! As bishop, St. Francis de Sales made an unpopular decision of his own, because he believed it...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Holy Father Pope Francis has issued his Lenten message for 2014 and it focuses on poverty. http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-lenten-message-2014 St. Francis de Sales also spoke of poverty. Poverty of spirit, St. Francis used to say, comprised three...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2014 | Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Last year we shared about a young girl named Josephine, http://visitationspirit.org/2013/02/ahmna-josephinethe-visitation-orders-st-bakhita/ who like her more famous counterpart, St. Bakhita, was rescued from an abducted life in Africa and brought to a Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2014 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
” If there is a disposition capable of attracting the benevolent gaze of the Lord and moving us forward in the way of perfection, it is certainly the one expressed by the Virgin of Nazareth , “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” Whereas by an act of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2014 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Here is the link: Francis de...