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Serenity| Reflection by Sr. Brenda Lisenby

The following meditation on Anne Goetze’s mixed media artwork, “Pray to Love, Love to Pray” comes from  Sr. Brenda Lisenby.  A black habited woman walks away, down a corridor. Her walking is a gentle walk, a knowing walk, a quiet walk. I cannot see her face, but I know it Read more…

By VizMonastery, 5 years ago
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Our Garden Blessing

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…

By VizMonastery, 5 years ago
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Love Bridges: Valentines Party at the Monastery

  Dear Friends of Visitation, Our family Valentine Party,* hosted and organized by our dear friend Vicki Bailey, was a huge success again this year. What was especially gratifying was seeing our families having such a great time together! Secondly, we had a diverse array of volunteers: teens from the Read more…

By VizMonastery, 5 years ago
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Celebrating Valentine’s Day: Expressing Love in North Minneapolis

How many ways are there to communicate love for your community? For the families that inspire and nurture our very existence? What are we called to say, do, be — in response to the outpouring of God’s love born out through one another? How do we, as the Visitation Community, express Read more…

By VizMonastery, 6 years6 years ago
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