by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 11, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, YEAR OF FAITH
Salesian Week 2013, will walk in the footsteps of the Year of Faith.A week to discover, pray, reflect with Saint François de Sales and Holy Jeanne de Chantal in the Basilica of the Visitation Every day, a Mass at 630PM in the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 10, 2013 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Today Deacon Rudi Schwartzkopf OSFS is ordained as a Priest of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, in his hometown of Toledo Ohio! And in the new Visitation Community, the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, this has been an amazing two month journey for the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News
“Cordiality is the outward expression of one’s deepest commitment to do all in one’s power- even if that involves suffering and pain- to insure the spiritual, material and human well-being of the one who is embraced. The brief, warm and very tender...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Visitation News, Vocation news
The Saint Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, hosted by the Georgetown Visitation Monastery, welcomed its second candidate this week and announces the joy that its First candidate will return in October to become an aspirant! The Saint Jane de Chantal Gallery Community...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 28, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
Did you know?- that St Francis de Sales, Founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary might have chosen St Martha as the congregation’s patron? Among the questions to be settled in the early days of Francis and Jane’s fledgling institute was its name....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 17, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Leonie Martin, (the sister of St. Therese of Liseux), who was a Visitation Nun, and in Profession, named Sister Francoise Therese, knew what it was to struggle emotionally. From a difficult childhood and youth and a few false starts in religious life, she grew to be a...