by Sister Susan Marie | May 17, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality
St. Francis de Sales shares his insights on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. He says, “These gifts are not only inseparable from charity, but they are the principal virtues,properties and qualities of charity. WISDOM is nothing else than the love that relishes, tastes...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 1, 2021 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Theme of this edition: “The Heart speaks to hearts”. Three days at the school of Saint Françis de Sales. and Saint Jane de Chantal Three days to go to the source of the heart of Jesus, with the Sisters of the Visitation Saturday May 29 10 a.m. – Mass at the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 18, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
The participation of St. Françis de Sales in the promotion of the cult of Saint Joseph highlights the emotional relationship between Jesus and his earthly father On March 17, 1611, St. Françis de Sales evokes this “great Saint, who so often pampered our Savior...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Spiritual graces were expected from St Joseph by many Visitandines in our history. Marie-Augustine Bouvard, who died in Paris in 1659, had “confessed to a trusted person that she had received very special graces from him, for the release of some internal...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 16, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Eleanor Roere was born in Turin on the first day of October in the year 1638, the day on which our worthy Mother de Chantal and her virtuous daughters arrived in this city to establish a Monastery. Does it not seem that the Institute of the Visitation came to receive...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The great Doctor of the Church and bishop of Geneva, St. Francis de Sales, was not only a faithful devotee of the Guardian of the Redeemer but his avid proponent as well. St. Francis de Sales made St. Joseph the special Patron of the religious order he founded, the...