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 9, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Saint Jane de Chantal served the poor, marginalized and underprivileged all her life, both as wife and widow and as foundress of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary. She taught her Sisters to do the same. “St. Chantal’s daughters were not content with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 5, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach
In our Living Jesus Chat Room this Sunday, we discussed these points: • What aspects can we imitate in St. Francis de Sales’ ‘man-to-man’ approach to evangelization? • St. Francis’ lifestyle was one of poverty and simplicity. How did this help...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
Pope Francis has challenged young people to be missionaries and go out to all the world with the Gospel. St. Francis de Sales’ own life provides the how-to! “Let us attempt to trace the portrait of the evangelizer such that Francis de Sales was in the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 24, 2013 | Events, Sacred Heart, Visitation Outreach, YEAR OF FAITH
On his sacred journey to Rio, Pope Francis demonstrated his deep affection for the youth of the world by placing them in the Heart of Christ. The Holy Father said, “I am here to meet young people coming from all over the world, drawn to the open arms of Christ...
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...