by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 12, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
and Blessed Feast of St. Jane de Chantal! “Our Blessed Father had a perfect devotion to Our Lady and a tender love, accompanied by a filial trust. He called her his Lady, his Queen, his Mistress. When he preached his praises, on the days of his feasts, which he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“Once he (St. Francis de Sales) wrote to me: ‘When will we be all soggy in gentleness and suavity towards our neighbor? When will we see the souls of our neighbors in the sacred chest of the Savior? Alas! who looks at him out of there, he runs fortune to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
St. Francis de Sales “had a very special love for the Most Blessed Sacrament; it was his real life and his only strength. O God! what ardent and tasty devotion he had when he carried him to the processions! You would have seen him as a luminous cherub. He...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“What,” he said to me in Lyon, “that could shake our peace? Certainly, when everything turns upside down, I will not be disturbed; for what is everyone worth together, in comparison to the peace of heart? This firmness proceeded, it seems to me, from...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2022 | St. Jane de Chantal
These reflections are taken from a talk by Mother Anne Marie Babin VHM, Superior of the Visitation Monastery in Annecy, France in the 1860’s. Day one- Wed August 3 “Look and do according to the model which has been shown you. Does it not seem that Our Lord...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 8, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach
“I have clearly recognized, conferring with our Blessed, that he has received from God a tasty, tender and constant love for the goods promised to us in the other life, which I have known that he hoped with humble confidence in God’s mercy and in the merit...