by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 4, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
March 8-14th is the newly designated national Catholic Sisters Week! To celebrate that and the upcoming Year of Consecrated Life, we have a special chat session this Sunday. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life released a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, LENT, Vocation news
St. Francis de Sales writes, “Lent is the autumn of the spiritual life during which we gather fruit to keep us going for the rest of the year. Enrich yourselves with these treasures, which nobody can take away from you and which cannot be destroyed. I am accustomed to...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 21, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Ebooks, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Download it here: Straightening the Wayward Path: Online Chats about Discernment You may recognize a call to religious life, but then what? What are some pitfalls to avoid? Should you find a spiritual director… and how? Contemplative or active order? What type...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2014 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Discernment with DeSales, Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
If you are a young woman in her 20’s or 30’s and have been pondering a vocation to the monastic, contemplative life, a Visitation community has been formed just for you! In June of 2013, the Second Federation of the Visitation in the United States began a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 10, 2014 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the First Foundation of a Visitation Monastery on the continent of Africa, in Loango, Repubic of the Congo. French Visitation Nuns brought the charism of St Francis de Sales to Africa and since then, many Congolese Sisters as well as...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 4, 2014 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Holy Father Pope Francis has designated 2015 as the Year of Consecrated Life (10/14-11/15) The Sisters of the Visitation hope to enter the celebration this year with the spirit of their Founders and share with you aspects of our charism of humility, gentleness,...