by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Gallery House is the first community that the Visitation Order settled in with the original Foundresses and still exists today, owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, where various rooms are preserved to tell the story of St. Jane de Chantal and the Founding Sisters....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 17, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior said to her community of Sisters: ” The great mystery the Church presents to our faith in these holy days imposes on us a respectful silence, rather than obliges us to speak, because all speaks, instructs, touches, penetrates, , and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 15, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Beware: Meditation can be used for both good and evil 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 12, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Complacence in God leads towards benevolence towards God. What makes the transition? Wherein lies the difficulty as regards a benevolent love toward God? How can we express it? Do you find your joy in the Lord? It requires concentration on the Lord. – i.e., the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 11, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales had a deep devotion to St. Joseph. The scholar, Father Joseph Chorpenning, OSFS, has written about this in a chapter entitled, “St. Joseph in the Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and of Francis de Sales:Convergences and Divergences, published...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 10, 2018 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
A Visitation Superior exhorted to her community of Sisters, “I am persuaded, dear Sisters, that your charities are occupied during this time of grace and salvation, in nourishing your faith and piety according to the spirit of the Church. Let us try to...