by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2015 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News
Thursday, July 2 is marked as the day that the beatification process opened for Leonie Martin, a Visitation Nun who died in 1941 at the age of 78 and sibling of the Carmelite Saint Therese of Lisieux. Bishop Boulanger of Bayeux and Lisieux opened the beatification...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2015 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Year of Consecrated Life
The process will be opened on the 115th anniversary of Leonie’s religious profession as Sister Francoise Therese in the chapel where she made her vows as a Visitation nun on July 2, 1900. Mgr Jean-Claude Boulanger, bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux, will preside at...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 3, 2015 | Events, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be celebrated on June 12th this year. In order to prepare we will post reflections on the Heart of Jesus by St. Francis de Sales, as a mini-novena. Day 9 “My Beloved is mine and I am His.” I do nothing except to please Him;...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 30, 2015 | Events, Visitation News, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
On this “transferred” Feast of the Visitation, Saturday May 30 our Brooklyn Visitandines welcomed a new postulant, Piedad. The new postulant was welcomed into the community after Daytime Prayer after a two year discernment process. Please pray for her as...
by Vis Editor | May 18, 2015 | Events, Photos & videos, Visitation News
Paintings showing life in a Visitation monastery by artist Anne Goetze are being exhibited at Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Goetze’s aunt, who died last year, was a member of the Visitation Sisters in Annecy, France. Currents...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 16, 2015 | Events, Visitation News, Vocation news, Year of Consecrated Life
Artist Anne Goetze and son Nathan are currently with the Brooklyn Visitation Nuns as the Pray to Love, Annecy Nun Series of fabulous artwork is displayed at the Monastery in honor of the year of Consecrated Life. Anne has a special interest in the Order as her aunt...