by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 24, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
Did you know that when St. Vincent de Paul spoke to his “daughters” of his new Congregation, the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, he used to take pleasure in giving them a characteristic title, namely, ” The...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 20, 2020 | Events, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation News
Because a Visitation Monastery is located in Rosolini, Italy, every year we announce the annual festivities of the Sacred heart in that magnificent city. Here are the upcoming events: The program of celebrations in honor of the Sacred HeartFrom Tuesday 22 to Friday 25...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2020 | Guard of Honor, Salesian Spirituality
The faithIf our body lives on the food it assimilates, our soul, too, must live on a substance appropriate to the nobility of its nature, and that substance is faith. Faith must preside over all our judgments, inspire all our actions, dictate all our resolutions....
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 29, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Today is the Feast of the Passion, or Beheading of St John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus. St Francis de Sales remarks about this Saint: I have often thought what was the greatest mortification of all the Saints in whose lives I have come across, and after several...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 16, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality
The nuns of the monastery of the Visitation tell extraordinary stories. In particular, it was Sister Teresa Bourgeat who was the “chosen one” by the angelic messagesWe find the presence of the guardian angel in the life story of the venerable Mother...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2020 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
St. Jane de Chantal, as Superior and Foundress of the Visitation Nuns, had many occasions to write to her spiritual daughters. Her letters to those Sisters who were mystics or experiencing mystical favors exhibit her profound understanding of these souls. One of these...