This year our annual Sacred Heart Novena returns to its traditional evening Mass.
The Novena will be celebrated from Thursday June 8, 2023 through Friday June 16, 2023 at 7PM in our Sacred Heart Chapel at Visitation Monastery.
All are welcome to attend and give glory to the Love of the Heart of Jesus!
The news is just in! The Visitation Order of Holy Mary will be celebrating the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary, December 2023-June 2025!
Bishop, Mgr Benoît Rivière of Auton has decreed a Great Jubilee for commemorate the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Heart of Jesus to Saint Marguerite-Marie in Paray-leMonial.
The theme of this Jubilee will be “Giving back love for love”.
The opening will take place on December 27, 2023, anniversary date of the first main appearance and closing on June 27, 2025, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and liturgical date of the great apparition of 1675.
1. On this occasion, the Order of the Visitation being intimately linked to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we invite you to bring especially in your prayer the events of the jubilee year taking place at the following dates: •
Rencontres de Paray (3-day retreat around the 1st Friday of each month)
In 2024: February 1-4, February 29-March 3, May 2-5, October 31-November 3, December S-8, In 2025: February 6-9, March 6-9, April 3-6, May 1-4, June 5-8 •
Feasts of Mercy: April 6-7, 2024 and April 26-27, 2025 •
Feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: June 6-9, 2024 and June 27-29, 2025, closing of the jubilee year
• Feast of Saint Margaret Mary: October 16-20, 2024 •
Symposium from May 1 to 5, 2024
We draw your attention to two of these events: • the feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 2024 and 2025: we suggest that you organize a local spiritual or festive event to celebrate this Jubilee. To help you do this, resources are available on our website https://www.sacrecoeur-paray.org
• the symposium from 1 to 5 May 2024 which will take place in Rome on the theme of Reparation.
For any information, you can contact Béatrice de Bastard: sanctuary@paray.org +33 6 85 04 84 60.
Hoping that this Jubilee will be all to the glory of the Heart of Jesus, we particularly recommend to your prayer and that of your community these preparations and its unfolding.
Kind regards, Sr. Maria Guadalupe PIMIENTA SANDOVAL, vsm Superior of the Monastery of Paray-le-Monial
Father Etienne KERN Rector * This jubilee is/ organized by the Sacré-Coeur Sanctuary: the chaplains. parish. the Jesuits. the Visitandines and supported by all the other religious communities of Paray-le-Monial, France.
Holy Thursday April 6 Mass at 430PM
Good Friday April 7 Service at 3PM
Holy Saturday April 8 Mass at 7PM
Easter Sunday April 9 Mass at 9AM
with Anne Goetze and Sister Susan Marie
During the weekend of March 11 through Tuesday March 14th, the Emmaus Center in Brooklyn exhibited the
artwork of Anne Goetze which depicts the beauty of the Visitation Nun’s life as well as scenes from their environments.
The show goes to St Louis Visitation Academy next week. Pray to Love Art Exhibit Visitation Academy of St. Louis
Currents News featured the art show in their newscast of March 15, 2023. You can view it specifically at Minutes 3 to 4:05, below.
Only two more days to go!
If you do attend, enter the Church Building of St Peter and Paul in Williamsburg, at 288 Berry St and go up the stairs for art exhibit, above the Chapel.
You will see many paintings and a special one of our own Sacred Heart Chapel!
Support your Catholic Sisters!
A good way is by visiting the Visitation Sisters ART exhibit running March 11-14 2023 at Emmaus Center in Brooklyn NY. Here is a video interview with the artist: ‘Pray to Love’ Art Exhibit Comes to the Emmaus Center in Williamsburg – NET TV (netny.tv)
March 11th 8AM – 2PM, 12th 9AM – 2PM, 13th 12PM – 5PM, & 14th 3PM – 10PM, 2023. Click here for more information.
288 Berry Street Brooklyn NY 11249
Former exhibit coverage: Brooklyn Tablet and NET TV Cover Visitation Art Exhibit | Brooklyn Visitation Monastery
Video online: http://netny.tv/episodes/currents/art-sisters-experience/#.VVpD61VViko
You are welcome to attend the 8:15AM Mass at Visitation Monastery’s Sacred Heart Chapel. Ashes will be distributed at that time only.
Blessed Lent!
