by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 9, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Why does charity nourish all other virtues? Charity has the “quality of perfecting the perfections which it meets with, it more greatly perfects where it finds greater perfection.” Discuss what St. Francis means by this. St. Francis says that small acts...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
Do you find the analogy of the army general helpful as an explanation for giving God all glory while still recognizing our merits? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and love? Does one precede the others? Is there a paradox here? What is the distinction...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 2, 2019 | Guard of Honor, Monthly Mystic, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality
The stream adheres to the source from which it drifts, the flower to the stem that supports it, the flame of the hearth that is consumed. To separate the stream from the spring, it dries up. Cut the flower from the stem, it fades. Remove the flame from the hearth, it...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Events, Guard of Honor, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A Jubilee Year for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary has been announced as opening October 16 2019 and ending October 17, 2020! This is the year we celebrate the centenary of the canonization of Saint Margaret Mary, the Apostle of Jesus’ Sacred Heart. On...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Can these virtues of faith, hope, and charity be practiced by Christians only? Often faith is presented as a static thing: either you have faith or you do not. What then does it mean that faith is a virtue (which is very much not a static thing)? Why are these...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 23, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
This year we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of a Visitation Monastery in Paris, France. The jubilee is highlighted at the Museum of the Visitation in Moulins, France with outstanding exhibits. Here we will share the story of the history of this...