Today, the Feast of Guardian Angels, we mark our 25th year as a monastic community in the heart of north Minneapolis. The following history and images come from our archives, and are accompanied by pictures snapped at today’s Foundation Day mass. *** On September 29, 1989, Sisters Mary Margaret, Karen and Mary Virginia said Read more…
by S. Katherine Mullin, VHM “Being outside these days placing fragile plants in moist dark soil somehow lifts my spirit and gives hope that each of us, and really all humanity, will grow to full strength.” – S. Katherine Mullin, VHM Maybe it is because as young girl I saw my dad outside, season after season, so intent on watching Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion Through the slanted wood shades of the Girard House living room windows, morning light fell on the red, black, and white cotton and silk fibers woven together by our friend Mary Johnson. As Visitation Minneapolis’ community leader Sr. Mary Frances Reis presented the tapestry to me, she Read more…
by Sr. Mary Virginia Schmidt, VHM “[H]ow do we deal with failure that is so much a part of our lives?” – S. Mary Virginia We are, most of us in the US, infected with the virus of perfectionism – in all areas: business, science, religion… It is the heart of advertising, is Read more…
by Sr. Mary Virginia Schmidt, VHM St. Jane House always amazes me. Last Wednesday evening, our own Jody Johnson, Visitation Companion Coordinator, full of the gentle wise spirit of St. Jane herself, exploded in a burst of energy and strength (also St. Jane’s charateristics) in an hour of Zumba. She acted as if we Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion On any given Tuesday night this July at the Fremont House, you might hear the splash of water from the garden hose over the tomatoes, beans, and rhubarb; or note the quiet work of fingers digging into the soil to release some pesky weeds from around Read more…
by Phil Soucheray, Visitation Companion I just got done reading Hermann Hesse’s “The Glass Bead Game.” Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of the book. I did not know that it was the final full-length novel by this noted German writer. Heck, he won the Nobel Prize Read more…
by Phil Soucheray, Visitation Companion God invites. Are we willing to listen? Be still and know that I am God. That’s what the psalmist wrote in Psalm 46. Like many of the psalms, the context of the lyrics refers to a powerful God in whom humanity is urged to find Read more…
From Guest Blogger Claire Kranz, Vis Alumna, Student at St. Louis University Marvel at God’s goodness. ~St. Francis de Sales Thanksgiving week is finally here and from a school and work perspective, I could not be more ready. But, as I sit here, admittedly listening to Christmas music, I realize Read more…
From our Fall Newsletter: Over four hundred years ago St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church and Founder with St. Jane de Chantal of the Order of the Visitation, wrote The Introduction to the Devout Life, a classic which has never been out of print over these Read more…