CAMPUS MINISTRY

FEAST OF THE VISITATION

On Tuesday, we celebrated the Feast of the Visitation. This is when the Church recalls the story from Luke’s Gospel in which Mary, only just pregnant with Jesus, goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with a son who will become John the Baptist. The text describes how the unborn boys recognised each other and “jumped in the womb”!

This Gospel event is pivotal for the RNDM Sisters. Their founder, Euphraise Barbier, saw in the Visitation story the very first mission, where Jesus was shared with others. Sr Maureen McBride unpacks this event saying that: 

"Stirred by the same zeal as Euphrasie, we are called to have a passion for God and a passion for humanity.

We are challenged to be border-crossers and boundary dwellers, transcending barriers of age, culture, geography and belief.

God-touched and frail, we are called to reach out to others to share experiences of our own brokenness and the miracle of healing.

We are called to be a listening presence, affirming, challenging and encouraging each other. Like Elizabeth, we are called to create spaces where each person finds affirmation and peace.

As Gospel people of hope, we celebrate our joys and sorrows, discoveries and delights, pain and struggles, and we journey. When abuse and injustice occur we are impelled to join in solidarity with others to break the silence and to speak with integrity and justice.

Like Elizabeth and Mary we are called to be big-hearted, generous and full-throated in the Blessings we pray for others- for the people with whom we live."

Happy Feast day to our RNDM Sisters and our whole community. May the Feast of the Visitation lead us into deeper solidarity with one another, to be “agents of change” to the world around us.

Mr Chris Kan

Dean of Campus Ministry