by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 28, 2019 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Resignation prefers God’s will before all things, yet it loves many other things besides the will of God. Indifference goes beyond resignation: for it loves nothing except for the love of God’s will: insomuch that nothing can stir the indifferent heart, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
On January 29, 2019 a new translation of the French biography on Sister Mary Martha Chambon, Visitandine, whose mission was to make known once again the Holy Wounds of our Crucified Savior, Jesus Christ, was published. It is a very readable and very moving account of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2019 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A festive diocesan time praying at the Basilica of the Visitation of Annecy for three days. Thursday, May 30: Ascension Day; Friday, May 31: Feast of the Visitation; conference, show. Saturday, June 1: Recollection followed by an evening and a night for young people....
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 9, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
In October 2018 a famous young woman from the French Telethon Programming entered a Visitation Monastery near Nantes, France, Jeanne Pelat. Jeanne has suffered much physically in her 22 years but her faith is outstandingly strong. Her new book is all about the value...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 6, 2019 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
“With God, for me, it was love at first sight”. Sister Sara, from the Visitation Monastery of Como, Italy on the day when St. Francis of Sales is celebrated, tells how only five years ago God called her to Him. It is a special occasion and for this reason...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Outreach
The Visitation Proclaims Life in the Womb! A Meditation on the Visitation When does life begin? The Church teaches that life begins from the very first moment of conception. Scripture, most particularly the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, Verses 39 to 45, supports this...