by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 31, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
Blessed Louis Brisson OSFS, the Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was beatified on September 22, 2012. At his Beatification Mass, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Causes of Saints, said that “The Church needs holy priests like Blessed Louis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 26, 2013 | Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
In our last post for the Year of Faith: Year of Faith & St. Jane de Chantal we shared about the Foundress of the Visitation Order, St Jane de Chantal’s observations about faith and temptations and her own struggle with them. A very holy soul, nevertheless most...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 16, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Teresa Desandais VHM Many of you have heard of St. Faustina and the revelations of the Divine Mercy of Our Lord Jesus. But have you heard of the Apostle of Merciful Love, Sister Marie Teresa Desandais? She was a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints, YEAR OF FAITH
St. Jane de Chantal was a woman of Faith who experienced temptations against the faith! St. Vincent de Paul said of Jane Frances: “She was full of faith, yet all her life had been tormented by thoughts against it. While apparently enjoying the peace and easiness of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 26, 2012 | Events, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation Saints
New Year’s Resolutions are a tradition. Over 400 years ago in France, even St. Jane de Chantal recommended them to her spiritual daughters,the Visitation Nuns. She said, “We must make strong and absolute resolutions, that if Our Lord gives us the coming...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 18, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
One cannot be devoted to the Holy Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ without acknowledging the role played by a Visitation nun of Chambery, France, Venerable Mary Martha Chambon, in the renewal of this devotion.This humble and illiterate lay Sister was mystically...