Welcome Sr. Brenda!
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Pray to Love: The Annecy, France Nun Exhibit Opens at the Basilica
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 Read more…
The Distress, the Kingdom, the Endurance|A Homily after the Jamar Clark Verdict
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. Read more…
Our Friend: Wazeer Brown
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 Read more…
On the Road to Emmaus
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 Read more…
Good Friday Reflection by S. Mary Frances Reis
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 Read more…
Life in Community| Holy Thursday Reflection by Cody Maynus
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 Read more…
Jane in Rome
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 Read more…
S. Karen Reflects: An Irish Nun in this Month of March
by Sr. Karen Mohan, VHM March, once primarily known to this Irish “lass” as the “month of St. Patrick,” now includes an awareness of “Women’s History Month“, “National Catholic Sisters’ Week” (March 8-14), and even “Nutrition Month.” These themes: being Irish, Read more…