While the new community of the Visitation Order, the St. Jane de Chantal Gallery Community, was established within the Georgetown Visitation Monastery on Thursday, June 6, 2013, its new website premieres today!
You can find it here: http://visitationgallerycommunity.org/
Most of your questions that have surfaced about this vocational community can be answered from the website text, and if you would like to contact the core members, please do so!
http://visitationgallerycommunity.org/contact/
“Our “Gallery Community” began on the four hundred and third anniversary of the foundation of our Order in response to an inspiration of the Holy Spirit to begin anew a community whose life of prayer and vocational ministry would draw young women to continue to bring the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary into the future for the Glory of God !
The name of our new community is after the familiar name our foundress used in referring to our first monastery founded in Annecy, France. As history tells us, the beginning of the foundation was made in a simple house called ”La Galerie”, a “gallery” ran along one side of their new monastery and looked out over the fields that led down to the shore of Lake Annecy. This being so, Saint Jane de Chantal and her first sisters warmly referred to their first founding monastery as the “Gallery House” !
The Second Federation of Monasteries in America answered an invitation inspired by the Holy Spirit to follow in the footsteps of our Founders and begin anew a community for young women to experience our monastic way of life as handed down to us in the spirit of our charism.
This community, named the “Saint Jane de Chantal Gallery Community” is being hosted by our first founding Monastery in America, Georgetown Visitation Monastery, Washington, D.C. The sisters of the Gallery Community have their separate dwelling area and community life, however, they also have opportunities to express sisterly charity in a cordial, loving way to their sisters of our Monastery of Georgetown, as well as share in their liturgies, life of prayer and ministry.
The Gallery Community invites women to pray, share and experience monastic life as an intimate call to love, serve and adore God in a spirit of joy and simplicity.
