Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Monastery Superior Celebrates Silver Jubilee

The Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn holds an annual event at the Immaculate Conception Center for all jubilarians of the year. This year approximately 92 Sisters and Brothers celebrated anywhere from 25 to 75 years of religious life. The … Continue reading

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Newly Approved Prayer

 A former novice of our Monastery was inspired to write this prayer which has been approved by the Church.  JESUS OUR HOPE AND SALVATION PRAYER– O JESUS we thank you that you are ever with us in this changing world.We … Continue reading

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Vocation Update

Our Monastery is blessed to have three Sisters in Temporary Vows and one postulant at the present time! The Lord is also gracing us with vocational inquiries and this weekend three women are planning to make a retreat with discernment … Continue reading

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A Visitandine Perspective on the Year of Mercy

The Blessed Mother is a sublime model of Mercy and the Scriptural passage of the Visitation of Our Lady exudes this characteristic in a joyful way. As Visitandines we can begin this Year of Mercy by living more deeply the … Continue reading

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Come to our Candlelight Rosary October 22 at 730PM

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Sun Feb 8th Consecrated Life Litany at Monastery

Today, from 4-5:30PM, you are invited to join the Visitation Sisters at our Bay Ridge Sacred Heart Chapel, for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, The Litany of Consecrated Life, and Evening Prayer. Please enter through the SIDE DOOR of the … Continue reading

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SNOWDAY AT MONASTERY!

Like the rest of the northeast and mid Atlantic areas, New York City and its Brooklyn borough has been submerged to some extent under snow. And so has Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge! Our prayer lives go on within the … Continue reading

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Consecrated Life and St. Francis de Sales

The Feast of St. Francis de Sales is approaching..on Saturday January 24th and our Church has also begun to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life. As a preparation for St. Francis de Sales’ Feast, we thought it might be good … Continue reading

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Mass/Candlelight Procession/Veneration of relic

The Brooklyn Diocese’s Sacred Heart Apostolate under the leadership of Reverend Peter Gillen, in conjunction with the Visitation Sisters, invites you to a special celebration of the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque on Thursday, October 16, 2014, her Feast … Continue reading

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St. Jane de Chantal, One of God’s Greatest Lovers

Tuesday August 12thwill be the Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, St. Jane Frances de Chantal. The well-known Cardinal Berulle, founder of the French Oratory,  once said of St. Jane that she was … Continue reading

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