Come and pray with us! Come and serve! Come and join us! As we welcome the Visitation School students – here for their Senior Apostolic Service experience and urban plunge – and with Memorial Day rapidly approaching, we know summer is right around the corner! The Visitation Sisters of Minneapolis 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…
Written by Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan, Visitation Alumna Whew, talk about thresholds, nothing seems so cyclical as the start of the school year to give a gentle and stunning reminder of the sacred walk of liminal space. When you are no longer on one side of the bridge and are yet Read more…
From Guest Blogger Claire Kranz, Vis Alumna, Student at St. Louis University “We are companions on the journey, given to one another as helpers in doing God’s work.” ~St. Jane de Chantal. During my senior year of high school at Visitation, I reflected on a Salesian quote or thought weekly Read more…
by Sr. Mary Frances Reis, VHM “As we settle into a time of transition from a full and fruitful year to a season of planning and “planting” for the coming year, we are grateful for our Visitation way which calls us to live in the PRESENT MOMENT and to treasure the Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion “Truly charity has no limit; for the love of God has been poured into our hearts by His Spirit dwelling in each one of us, calling us to a life of devotion and inviting us to bloom in the garden where He has planted and Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion “…blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.”,–Luke 1:42 This Thursday we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, the story that is our order’s namesake, that anchors our charism and presence in communities all over the world — especially in Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Acts 2:4 As we approach Pentecost Sunday and celebrate the birthday of our Church, let’s keep in prayer the gifts of the Read more…
Written by Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan, Visitation Alumna Last Monday I went back to Visitation Mendota to witness another alumna, Liz Edwards Hewitt, tell the Visitation students her story of surviving breast cancer. A story which led to her deep conviction that it is imperative to advocate for your health. She Read more…