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Olivia Wills Kane shares how the Visitation has inspired her to live in the present moment.
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Claire Kranz writes about Visitation's mural project with Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS.
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Vis archivist Colleen Hansen shares about the Sisters' calendar Année Sainte, a book of remembrance.
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As we step into this moment of recreation and re-creation when we celebrate the New Year and the Marian Solemnity, let us ask ourselves what will we bring with us into the new year? What will we leave behind in the old? Will we repeat with Mary her courageous fiat? Will we see in our very being the traces of God and in God the traces of ourselves?
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Hoping for a deeper and more meaningful Advent, Kristin Koch was drawn to St. Jane de Chantal's words, “Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.”
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