The Visitation Sisters are preparing for their 400th anniversary.
In 1610, St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal envisioned a religious congregation that would manifest Christ’s virtues of gentleness, humility and simplicity. Today, the Visitation Sisters around the world are preparing for the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Order, to take place next year.
To help celebrate, the Brooklyn Visitation Monastery in New York has launched a new website that explains the order’s charism and the community’s spirit. The community, housed amid beautiful gardens, overlooks the Manhattan skyline. The group is contemplative, although the Sisters administer an elementary, private school for girls, Visitation Academy.
“St. Francis de Sales’ Spiritual Directory refines the movements of our soul throughout our daily tasks and spiritual exercises,” says the Sisters’ website. “His Conferences address every human situation and demonstrate to us how to respond spiritually, as do the Conferences of St. Jane. We are blessed with a Gospel-based spirituality that engenders gentleness, humility, patience and simplicity which can also be appropriately shared with people of all vocational calls.”
In honor of this Jubilee, Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has issued a decree granting a plenary indulgence to all who worship at a Visitation Monastery throughout 2010.
For more information, go to http://www.BrooklynVisitationMonastery.org. The website was designed by http://www.TreeFrogClick.com web services.
