by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 24, 2016 | Events, Holy Year of Mercy, Museum of the Visitation, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
The Flowers of Glory is the new upcoming exhibit with a companion book scheduled for opening at the Visitation Museum in Moulins France May 3-December 16, 2016. Read about it below the picture:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 8, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Have you ever been ridiculed for being “devout” or heard of Christians described as “boring”? Why do you think outsiders consider the devout life to be a negative thing? How does true devotion,for example, “cure the poor of sadness, and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 25, 2016 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, St. Francis de Sales
Sun Chat Jan 24: The connection with Francis de Sales and our contemporary political situation is important. With the celebration of the feast day of St. Francis (January 24), how can we not just commemorate his saintly life, but live a life inspired by him so that...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 24, 2016 | St. Francis de Sales
Visitandines around the world celebrate our Holy Founder’s Feast today, even as it falls on a Sunday! In the USA both Brooklyn and Washington Visitation communities are snowbound but blessed at least to have had Mass this holy Day. We pray for each of you and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 23, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
On this day when St Francis was nearly 5, St Jane de Chantal was born in Dijon, in 1572. In 1618 on this day, St Francis assisted at the death of his confessor, Father Phillip of Quoex, who was saintly and visited by his guardian Ange. The confessor said of St Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 22, 2016 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
On January 22, 1605, St Francis de Sales, recovering from a series of illnesses, wrote to the Baroness de Chantal that he sent her a thousand blessings and that he would resume his regular correspondence with her as soon as he was able. At this time the Baroness was...