Our community in Bay Ridge is recalling Mother’s visit to our Monastery in 1986.
That day is recalled every evening at recreation when one of us sits in the CHAIR that Mother Teresa sat in! The metal plaque on this chair recalls the exact date of Mother Teresa’s visit:
At the time, Mother Marie Anatrella was Superior of our Brooklyn Visitation community. One of the Missionaries of Charity was making a retreat in our Monastery, and Mother Teresa came to speak with her, as her Superior. Mother Marie took the opportunity to have the Saint speak to all the Visitandine Sisters in our Library Room.
As Mother Teresa was leaving, our students from the Visitation Academy were ending their school day and encountered the Saint on her way out. She lovingly and graciously gave the children medals.