by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 26, 2012 | Events, Visitation News
One of the Visitation’s newest Monasteries, canonically erected in 2009 in Soata, Boyaca, Colombia, sends joyful news about their progress and this past year’s major events. Under the Superiorship of Mother Maria Gema Giraldo Galeano, this budding...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 10, 2012 | Events, Visitation News
The commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2012, Reporter Roger Mudd, addressed the students at Georgetown Preparatory School, the apostolate of the Visitation Monastery of Georgetown, on Tuesday, June 7th, 2012.
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 8, 2012 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Freedom… religious liberty… 4th of July…. All these words stir up particular sentiments in our hearts. St. Francis de Sales had his own unique perspective on freedom, and Fr. Eunan McDonnell, SDB, in his book, The Concept of Freedom in the Writings...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2012 | Events, Visitation Outreach
With a clear awareness that it was Pentecost, much of our chat centered around the Holy Spirit on Sunday, May 27th. Sister: On Thurs will be the Feast of the Visitation I hope to post a few of St Francis thoughts on this mystery. He called it the Order the Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 22, 2012 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
THE EWTN EXPERIENCE BROADCAST DAY Wednesday morning, the day of the broadcast, was not only overcast, but rain poured down in deep buckets. I made it rather wet to the 7AM Holy Mass, which was so very reverent. As it was televised, the cameras located up towards...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 21, 2012 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
THE EWTN EXPERIENCE Part 1- The Call and Preparation How did a Visitation nun even get to be invited to be on Catholic cable tv? In Feb. I received an e mail which had gone astray to another of our communities, and...