Facebook Alert! Twitter Alert! Flickr Alert! A blessed Gaudete Sunday! In Sunday’s Gospel, John the Baptist gives a few pointers for our immediate preparation for the greatest Birthday ever celebrated: Open your closet and share; Open your pantry and share; Open your heart to the Great Mystery of the Incarnation and Read more…
Join us in celebrating the young people and their mentors in this summer’s 2015 Youth in Theology and Ministry (YTM) Institute. We are thrilled to be able to support our friends Alma, Eiler and Jessica as participants in this two year program. YTM’s mission is to engage and develop Catholic young people and their adult Read more…
Our Catholic Youth Campers had a fantastic week from June 21-26! On the last day, families went to McGregor, where Catholic Youth Camp- Minnesota is located to see the camp, and to enjoy a special end of camp program. We Sisters continue to be unconditionally committed to this campership program, Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion I imagine him standing at his kitchen sink. Maybe he’s stirring up a glass of orange juice to go with a late morning lunch –something to satiate his thirst before he has to go to work. From the kitchen window of his garden level apartment he sees Read more…
A Post from our FaceBook page: “We took teens to Flying Cloud airport on Saturday- Steve, Detrice and I. It was all about the history of the Tuskegee airmen in WW ll. Amazing men who escorted fighter planes as they did their job. It is known that these men were Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion “I deleted 1, 400+ emails. I am down to having one message in my inbox at this moment. ” Who does this? Who among us is able to claim this feat of clearing out our email inboxes? I tell you, I almost toppled when I read Read more…
Photo by Sr. Katherine Mullin, vhm This past weekend our neighborhood kids were taken by Visitation School students to Holidazzle! They all came back to the monastery for cocoa, cookies and Christmas carols around the fire. Some entertained, some were entertained. All had fun! –SK2 To see more photos from Read more…
Photo by Brian Mogren, Visitation Companion On Saturday, November 10, 2012, the Visitation Sisters held their annual “Winter Weather Clothing Giveaway” –sponsored by the Mendota Heights Visitation Campus Ministry. Over 600 gently used coats were collected by girls from Visitation School and handed out at the Girard Avenue Monastery. (Thank Read more…