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		<title>Are Our Questions Big Enough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ask you to learn to hold and, this lovely coordinating conjunction, that by definition holds two equal parts of a sentence together. After all, isn&#8217;t that what life invites us to do more often than not, hold more than one thing that is dear and near to us. I ask you this Lenten Season [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots from Saturday at St. Jane House</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a week at St. Jane House! On the heels of Wednesday&#8217;s rich and rewarding first discernment workshop held at the Visitation Sister&#8217;s lay retreat house, follows another workshop of sorts, engaging more young people from the Northside neighborhood.  The following  images -  taken and submitted by Vis Companion and SJH host, Brian Mogren,  document [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the most of Lent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sr. Joanna O&#8217;Meara, VHM

“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 say that we will not spend Lent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment Evening: An Intimate Inquiry of the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Wednesday evening at St. Jane House in North Minneapolis, marked the first of three discernment workshops, entitled, &#8220;Following the Spirit,&#8221; that the Visitation Sisters are facilitating for young adults. Convened in the lay member retreat space were 23 people hailing from various parts of our globe,  all currently residing in the Twin Cities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nearness of the Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sr. Karen Mohan, VHM
Today is a landmark day for me, for I am stepping into the world of the BLOG!  Our Visitation community launched into this world last month on the feast of our Founder, St. Francis de Sales, thanks to a team of “vocation partners” who are committed to helping us get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass at the Monastery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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Speak, Lord, I love to listen to your voice. See, Lord, here I am. 
It&#8217;s Friday, February 19th, 11am,  and Sr. Mary Frances is intoning the opening song at this Lenten season service. We are gathered in the chapel of the the Visitation Monastery on Fremont Avenue in North Minneapolis, where Fr. Jim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discern Your Next Best Step</title>
		<link>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/discern-your-next-best-step/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/discern-your-next-best-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
On this first day of our Lenten journey, as we travel from the depths of winter to the promise of spring, we enter a liminal space, a time of being in the sacred in-between. Lent is time of becoming, shedding all that hinders us from greater love of God, Self, and Others, letting go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Following the Spirit&#8221; &#8211; An Invitation To Young Adults</title>
		<link>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/following-the-spirit-an-invitation-to-young-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all young adults! Are you a young adult wondering what your next step in life might be? Would you like help in figuring out how to proceed on the path related to your career, school, or life?
Please consider joining us at one of the upcoming &#8220;Discernment Evenings,&#8221; entitled, “&#8217;Following the Spirit&#8217;—Helping Young Adults Figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seeing in Winter&#8221; &#8211; A Poem by Sr. Joanna O&#8217;Meara, VHM</title>
		<link>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/seeing-in-winter-a-poem-by-sr-joanna-omeara-vhm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/seeing-in-winter-a-poem-by-sr-joanna-omeara-vhm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;By now, it should go without saying that what the oven is to the baker and the berry stained blouse is to the dry cleaner, so the window is to the poet&#8221;
– Billy Collins, Poet Laureate


Seeing in Winter
-Sr. Joanna O’Meara, VHM


I know by seeing that we wait in due reverence.
Etched into the once green earth
layers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for New Nuns?</title>
		<link>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/recipe-for-new-nuns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visitationmonasteryminneapolis.org/2010/02/recipe-for-new-nuns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, a small group of teenage girls,  Visitation Companions, and Visitation Sister, Mary Virginia, convened at St. Jane House (SJH) for an afternoon of cookie baking. Vis Companion and SJH host, Brian Mogren, took a photo  documenting the occasion, and emailed a few words about the collaborative experience to fellow Vis Companions. Melissa received [...]]]></description>
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