by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News
“Cordiality is the outward expression of one’s deepest commitment to do all in one’s power- even if that involves suffering and pain- to insure the spiritual, material and human well-being of the one who is embraced. The brief, warm and very tender...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Catherine Putigny, VHM Visitandine of Metz Part 1 The outstanding uniqueness of this lay Sister of the Metz, France Visitation Monastery was her devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Jesus. “One day, whilst she was praying in the tribune, she thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Pope Francis has challenged young people to be missionaries and go out to all the world with the Gospel. St. Francis de Sales’ own life provides the how-to! “Let us attempt to trace the portrait of the evangelizer such that Francis de Sales was in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 28, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
Did you know?- that St Francis de Sales, Founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary might have chosen St Martha as the congregation’s patron? Among the questions to be settled in the early days of Francis and Jane’s fledgling institute was its name....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 17, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Leonie Martin, (the sister of St. Therese of Liseux), who was a Visitation Nun, and in Profession, named Sister Francoise Therese, knew what it was to struggle emotionally. From a difficult childhood and youth and a few false starts in religious life, she grew to be a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 16, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
The North American Salesian Network is an intentional network of collaboration by Salesian organizations. This group currently includes: • DeSales Resources and Ministries • Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales • Oblates of St. Francis de...