by Sr. Suzanne Homeyer, VHM As I got my first look at Anne Goetze’s signature piece for the exhibit, Pray to Love: The Annecy France Nun Series, I was immediately caught up into the quiet calm of an old town French street scape. What was it down the road that Read more…
Join us in welcoming Brenda Lisenby formally into the Novitiate! (This is a period of 2 years of more intense study of the vowed life in the Order of the Visitation). Click to see photos taken Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at a private morning ceremony. Brenda received the following gifts: a Read more…
Blessing Prayer for a Garden Lord of Creation, who planted Your own garden called Eden, come and bless this soil which is to be our garden. All that dies becomes earth, and so it lives again. May this garden soil be both womb and tomb, a home for death and Read more…
Pray to Love: The Annecy, France/ Nun Series Pray to Love from Anne Goetze on Vimeo. In her video, Pray to Love: The Annecy, France/ Nun Series, Artist Anne Goetze shares with the viewers the story of her journeys to France, her love for the community of Visitation Sisters that her Aunt Read more…
by Fr. Dale Korogi, Church of the Ascension “I John, share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus.” – Rev. 1:9 The distress, the kingdom, the endurance: from today’s reading from the Book of Revelation. I. THE DISTRESS There is a serious racial divide in our neighborhood, Read more…
by Dave Nimmer, Guest Blogger Wazeer Brown, and his brother Emmanuel, are the first youngsters the Visitation Sisters “met” after they decided to locate their monastery in North Minneapolis in 1989. The two boys, about three and four years old, were standing on the street corner at 16th and Fremont as the Sisters were driving Read more…
by S. Suzanne Homeyer, VHM “We were, indeed, pilgrims on the same path, engaging each other in contemplative conversation. We were using the same concepts if not the same language and imagery, and saying so many of the same things. And that, after all, is what it’s all about isn’t it? Read more…
by S. Mary Frances Reis, VHM Isaiah 52:13-15; 53: 1-12 A Blessed Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion. This is the day to gaze on Love—a day, in the words of the Palmist, to “Be still and know that I am God” (Ps.46:11). What other stance can we take before Read more…
by Cody Maynus Ask any monk or nun to name the best and the worst parts of their religious life and you will likely get the same answer: life together in community. Community can be difficult, regardless of the form it takes. Living together, studying together, working together, praying together Read more…
by S. Suzanne Homeyer, VHM TRAVEL DOESN’T CHANGE MY DAILY PRAYER LIFE as much as one might think. I begin each day with prayer. As St. Jane de Chantal suggests: “Upon awakening in the morning, turn your thoughts to God present everywhere. Place your heart and your entire being in Read more…