by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 18, 2013 | Discernment with DeSales, Events, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
At any time in your life, have you been stirred by the message of St. Francis de Sales or St. Jane de Chantal? Fascinated by their lives? Drawn to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, or interested in the apparitions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque? Does an...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 23, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news, YEAR OF FAITH
Chat: (November 24, 2013: Solemnity of Christ the King) “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” St. Francis de Sales tells us in the Introduction to the Devout Life: “Consider the eternal love...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 20, 2013 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Vocation news, YEAR OF FAITH
On this day, November 21, the Feast of the Presentation, the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary throughout the world , renew our vows each year during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as an act of fidelity to our loving God and our witness in the Church. What a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 19, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
In our Living Jesus Chat Room we discussed Sisters: Did the particular ministry of any of the sisters stand out to you? How did they fulfil their own particular vocation as a member of the Body of Christ? In this video, the active ministry of the sisters is shown....
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 14, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
This is the second of two videos portraying the ministry of Catholic religious sisters. There are many different ways within the Catholic Church to live out the consecrated life of a religious sister. Just this fall, the one hour-long documentary,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 11, 2013 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Sun chat Nov 10- film “light of Love: What were some of the works you saw the sisters doing in this film? In what ways did the sisters fulfill these roles in a different way than a layperson? One can see from the lives of these five sisters that community life...