Blessed-Mother-and-St-Elizabeth-Visitation-Statue-224x300The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has issued its Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America.

Come discuss it at our Chat Room Sunday December 21st at 730PM est.

It’s conclusion emphasized the process as reflecting the meeting between Mary and Elizabeth in the Visitation. Since we are Visitation Sisters, it might be good for all to have our reflections on this perspective.

The document concluded: “The Apostolic Visitation of the Institutes of Women Religious in the United States modelled its approach on the Gospel encounter between Mary and her cousin Elizabeth. These two women, one a virgin and the other married but barren, overcame fear and uncertainty to joyfully embrace their role in God’s plan of salvation. So too the Apostolic Visitation offered new opportunities for women religious to discover God’s presence and salvific action in fruitful communication with other religious, with the Church’s pastors and lay faithful.

Indeed, the entire Church sings the Magnificat to celebrate the great things that God does for women religious and for his people through them. We look to Mary, who constantly contemplates the mystery of God in our world, in human history and in our daily lives, the one who set out from her town “with haste” (Lk 1:39) to bring Jesus and the Gospel gift to others.”

Read the entire document here:

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/12/16/0963/02078.html