Update: News from the Northside*

by Sr. Mary Frances Reis, VHM “As we settle into a time of transition from a full and fruitful year to a season of planning and “planting” for the coming year, we are grateful for our Visitation way which calls us to live in the PRESENT MOMENT and to treasure the […]

Visitation Monastery: Summer 2011 at a Glance

by Sr. Mary Frances Reis, VHM As they say in our neighborhood, we are “Blessed and Highly favored”; the list below of several of the summer events/happenings is not exhaustive, but gives a glimpse of the fullness and fruitfulness of our life “in the ‘Hood”—graced in so many ways! May […]

Meet the Sisters

Meet the Sisters Sister Mary Paula Fun Fact: Has 31 nephews and nieces, 45 great-nephews and -nieces, and too many great-greats to count! After many, many years, I have actually crossed the river! I, Sister Mary Paula McCarthy, grew up just a block from the Mississippi—on the St. Paul side—never […]