Sat Nov 4 Mass at 10AM
Sat Nov 11 Mass at 10AM
Sun Nov 12 Mass at 930AM
Daily Mass will not be offered in our Chapel Oct 23- 28
Mass will resume on Sunday Oct 29.
We are sorry for this inconvenience.
On Sunday September 24, 2023 Visitation Monastery and Visitation Academy of Brooklyn NY celebrates 168 years of foundation and service!
Mass will be celebrated at 9AM- please consider attending!
We find in our hearts deep gratitude for all who have been called to, touched by, served in, learned within, and worked or prayed here over these many years.
Thank you, Sisters! Priests! Teachers! Alums! Students! Associates! Retreatants! Employees! Service Providers! Neighbors! Benefactors! Relatives, Friends!
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus always find a place deep within your hearts, and ours.
Most Reverend Benoît Rivière, Bishop of Autun, has decreed a one-and-a-half-year Jubilee to commemorate the 350e anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary, Visitandine religious of Paray-le-Monial in the XVIIe century.
The anniversary of the first apparition will mark the opening of this Jubilee time. The three main appearances took place on December 27, 1673, on 1er Friday of a month of 1674 and in June 1675. The closing of the Jubilee will therefore be June 27, 2025, the date of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart and the anniversary month of the third great apparition.
The opening mass on December 27 will be celebrated at 11 a.m. at the basilica of Paray-le-Monial. It will be presided over by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in France and will be open to all. The Shrine of the Sacred Heart as well as many movements or associations related to the Heart of Jesus will be present.
The theme chosen is “Return love for love“. These are the words of Saint Margaret Mary: “To learn to love Jesus, who urged me so hard to repay him love for love…” These words perfectly sum up the whole spirituality of the Sacred Heart: to respond to God’s infinite love with love.
During the preparatory year for the Jubilee, invitations were extended to all the dioceses of France, to episcopal conferences throughout the world, as well as to communities living under the spirituality of the Sacred Heart. Parishes, churches, chapels or educational institutions under the patronage of the Sacred Heart were also invited to come on pilgrimage or organize local events.
The Heart of Jesus brings people together. Different ecclesial realities have already responded favourably to the announcement of this major event in France and will participate in the Jubilee. Among them, the Spanish Cor Iesu Institute, which relays information in the Hispanic world, the international Emmanuel community, which animates the Sanctuary of Paray-le-Monial, the worldwide network of the Pope’s prayer founded and animated by the Jesuits, as well as the Abbey of Le Barroux.
Events will also be proposed: an international artists’ competition, a meeting with consecrated persons on February 2, 2024, a retreat entitled “The Way of the Heart” and a theological colloquium in Rome will be organized from 1er to May 5, 2024...
« This Jubilee is a wonderful opportunity to come and drink from the source of the Sacred Heart and to put oneself at his school”, underlines Father Etienne Kern, rector of the Sanctuary of Paray-le-Monial, “to become apostles of the Heart of Jesus, filled with his compassion, his gentleness and his humility,which the world so badly needs! »
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.
