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Monastic Immersion in Minneapolis
The Monastic Immersion Experience is an opportunity offered by the Visitation Sisters of Minneapolis to women desiring an in-depth immersion into the monastic rhythm for a period of six months to a year. The first participant arrived on Jul 5th, and members of the...
Recognizing A Religious Vocation
St. Francis de Sales wrote sound advice about the ways we can discern a vocation to the consecrated life and cautioned us about imperfect tools of discernment. As Founder of the Visitation Order, he spoke to the early Visitandines about vocations, "If we desire to...
Chatting about:retreats&spiritual direction
Sunday July 8th chat focused on retreat experiences and the need for spiritual direction in our lives. Sister: Welcome to tonight's chat! The Jul 6-8 retreat posted about a while back took place here in Brooklyn this weekend with 3 wonderful women Have you been on a...
Visitandine Vocations & St Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales, the Founder of the Visitation Order, had very definite ideas about the way God works with women to draw them into religious life, and he shared his profound thoughts with the first community of Visitation Nuns in Annecy, France. If you have ever...
July Mystic of the Month
Venerable Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche Mystic of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for His Priests Margaret de la Touche was born in 1868 in France and entered the Visitation Order in 1890. Our Lord chose her to live her religious life for the clergy. Jesus said to...
Retreat into God
St. Francis de Sales was a firm believer in the making of spiritual retreats by the laity. He explained, " The saints retreated to solitary places, so that, with worldly cares left behind, they could more freely and ardently give themselves up to heavenly love. Souls...
Why Make a Retreat at Visitation?
The Founder of the Visitation Order, St. Francis de Sales, wrote in depth on the spiritual benefits resulting from a retreat, a time set apart for God. In his Treatise on the Love of God, St. Francis de Sales wrote: " The motive of divine charity pours forth an...
A new “Venerable” Visitation Nun Declared!
In a private audience on Thursday June 28, 2012 with prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato, Pope Benedict XVI approved the “heroic virtue” of Servant of God Maria Margit Bogner,a professed Hungarian Nun of the Visitation...
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