by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 26, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
In your opinion, which of the two would love God more: 1) the one born blind, who might know all the discourses that philosophers make of it and the praises they give it, or 2) the farmer, who by a clear sight feels and realizes the agreeable splendor of the rising...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2018 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A generation closer to our Foundress, St Jane de Chantal, than Marie-Blanche de Grignan (Sr Francoise Marie, Visitandine) was St. Jane’s great granddaughter, Diane, whose grandmother was Francoise, the only child of St. Jane to survive her. This granddaughter,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Marie Blanche de Grignan was the great-great granddaughter of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and the granddaughter of the famous letter writer, Madame Sevigne. Her mother Francoise, married to François Adhémar de Monteil, comte de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why the unlearned bear away heaven This week we are continuing with book six (“Of The Exercises Of Holy Love In Prayer.”) from Saint Francis’ Treatise on the Love of God. Be sure to watch the video “Affective Love Practiced in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Who was this Marie-Blanche, Visitandine that was listed on the genealogical chart at the Gallery House in Annecy, the Visitation Order’s first Monastery? The chart showed that: St. Jane de Chantal’s son Celse Benigne had a daughter, Marie de Rabutin...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Why is prayer a mystical experience? What are the special characteristics of meditation? What is the definition of Contemplative Prayer? Do you know of other definitions? In which way is knowledge an aid to love? In what way could it be a hindrance? Can love teach us...