by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 18, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Venerable Louis Brisson will be beatified this Saturday, September 22. Founder of the Oblates of St Francis de Sales and Confessor to the Visitandines for over 40 years, Venerable Brisson was a fount of Salesian wisdom after his patron, St. Francis de Sales. May this...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2012 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
International Symposium on Fr. Brisson’s Ministry and Spirituality Held in conjunction with his beatification and sponsored by the International Commission for Salesian Studies (ICSS) 24-25 September 2012, Motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Angelique Millet VHM Sister Marie Angelique Millet (1879-1944) born Charlotte, was Professed in the Visitation Monastery of Caen France, the very same community that St. Therese’s Sister Leonie was a member of and in fact, they were contemporaries! Sr...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 30, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In our exploration of holiness, its attributes and its perplexities, we continue with St Francis de Sales’ explanations of virtues and their relation to LOVE. St Francis de Sales wrote, “There are some virtues which by reason of their natural alliance and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 29, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Sunday night’s chat evolved into a very interesting discussion about holiness, especially as evidenced in saints, and common virtues that sometimes seem to be opposed by that very sanctity. When does God’s manifest will supercede an act of human obedience,...