Healing Our City

by Sister Mary Frances on July 31, 2020 “Come to me and rest.” (see Mt 11:25-30)   Sr. Mary Frances Reisshares her grief at the Prayer Tent For the past 30+ years, we Visitation Sisters have been blessed to make our home in north Minneapolis “to Live Jesus by being Read more…

Share Your Fruit

by Caitlin Parsley on July 25, 2020 As these special and undoubtedly strange months as a VIP intern come to a close, I am cherishing the “little nosegay of devotion,” as Frances de Sales would say, that I’ve gathered up. It is such a beautiful bouquet reminding me that the Read more…

Trust the Miracle Worker

by Anna Dourgarian on June 14, 2020 Be careful in turbulent times. Anxiety is an opportunity for the evil one to distract and, little by little, ensnare you. In the Gospel today, “the Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:52). Read more…

As Lent Melts into Easter

by Anna Dourgarian on April 11, 2020 Here the Beaver’s voice sank into silence and it gave one or two very mysterious nods. Then signaling to the children to stand as close around it as they possibly could, so that their faces were actually tickled by its whiskers, it added Read more…

A Foreward to “Beyond Belief”

by Dave Nimmer, reprinted on March 26, 2020 Ray H. Richardson, sportswriter and host for KMOJ-FM in Minneapolis-St. Paul, has spent the past three years researching and writing the story of Mary Johnson-Roy and Oshea Israel. We are thrilled to have his book Beyond Belief in our hands now. The Read more…

Sharing the Peace

by Sister Karen Mohan on September 21, 2019 On September 21, while the rest of my community was in retreat, I had the opportunity to participate in the WALK FOR PLANET PEACE, a march sponsored by the Twin Cities Nonviolent Committee as part of the 2nd Annual “10 Days Free Read more…