By Aimee Fritsch, Visitation Resident Lay Community I can’t believe the day is finally here; I’m writing this blog post from 20,000 feet, on my way to Germany. I’ll be there for a few days before traveling on to Krakow, Poland, meeting up with a friend from college as well Read more…
Sr. Mary Frances Reis, VHM Greeting to our Faithful web site and Facebook readers! As I compose this overview of our summer on the Northside, we are grieving and praying with families all over who have known the tragedy and horror of violence these past weeks. Our prayers go across the river to Falcon Read more…
By Sr. Mary Frances Reis, VHM We first met Sister Jean Thuerauf in August 1989 at her first Cookie Cart Bakery she started in North Minneapolis. “If you are moving to North Minneapolis you need to meet Sister Jean,” advised our friend, Dick Rice. As we walked into the un- Read more…
by Dave Nimmer, Guest Blogger A NOTE OF APPECIATION: Dave Nimmer has traveled with us the 27 year journey of the Visitation Monastery of Minneapolis. His unconditional love and presence to our community from Day #1 moved us to honor him with our Cross of Affiliation. No one knows more Read more…
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 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…