by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 20, 2020 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Vocation news
A new book entitled “When Your Partner Loses His Faith” by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook explains how the Visitation Sisters of Minneapolis opened her up to Salesian spirituality and in particular, the process of turning something lost into something...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 7, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
This post is the third in our mini-series on St. Jane’s Letters to her Mystical Visitandine daughters. St Jane writes to an early Superior who experienced mystical favors: LXXXV.To Mother Anne Marguerite Clément, Superior at Montargis. Vive ✠ Jésus! Annecy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 4, 2020 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
St. Jane de Chantal, as Superior and Foundress of the Visitation Nuns, had many occasions to write to her spiritual daughters. Her letters to those Sisters who were mystics or experiencing mystical favors exhibit her profound understanding of these souls. One of these...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 10, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The Visitation Superior of Annecy speaks to us about Hope: It is part of our life, of our prayer. What do we hope for? We hope for a beautiful flowering, good weather, healing of a person, dynamism in our comunity, conversion, change … When this hope does not...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 27, 2020 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
The Superior of Annecy, Mother Marie Therese, reflects on silence: Some excerpts: June 09, 2020In a commentary on the book of Job, entitled: “We have been made small in your midst “, St Gregory the Great said that … humility being the mistress of all...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2020 | Photos & videos, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Brooklyn Visitandine featured during the pandemic: By Michelle Powers New York City is reopening, but one woman is choosing to remain in quarantine — for the rest of her life. “I was drawn to the enclosure,” said Sister Susan Marie, a cloistered nun. Her...