by Sister Susan Marie | May 11, 2015 | St. Jane de Chantal
St. Jane de Chantal had a most tender devotion to the Blessed Mother. This is how St. Vincent de Paul described it to his Daughters of Charity: “For a long time, a lady I knew had the practice in all her meditations of contemplating a picture of the Blessed...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 9, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
We have been informed of or have discovered three new works of interest to Visitandines and friends! ...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 23, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Attitudes are everything. Our perception of what is happening at the moment in our lives will color our response to that situation. But if we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, then our actions will be done for love of Him even amidst dryness and difficulties. St....
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2015 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
St. Francis frequently told those who came to him for spiritual direction that they should bloom where they were planted. They should make the best of what was at hand. He is teaching us the same truth today. He says: “Instead of tilling the field in which we find...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
We, the Visitandines of Moulins, is the title of the new exposition highlighting 400 years of the Visitation Order in the city of Moulins, France. Founded in 1616, this Visitandine community was the place where Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, spent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 29, 2015 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
Salesian Week August 23, 2015 August 29, 2015 Where Annecy, France For the year 2015, the theme in the context of the Salesian Week is based on an updated reading of “Introduction to the Devout Life.” The general theme: “I have called you friends...