Pilgrimage
Several Sisters went on a pilgrimage to the NYC sites of Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, our foundress (when it was still safe to travel in NYC). We saw the convent on West 71st Street where we were founded in 1920, went to Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church on West 71st Street where the early Sisters went daily, walked to the area where our foundress received, in 1908, the fullness of the inspiration to begin our community, and went to St. Paul the Apostle Church, where she would have gone many times before we were founded.
Several of our Sisters participated in the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Two of our juniorate Sisters traveled by bus from Marycrest, and other Sisters went from Pennsylvania. They joined the many, many thousands of people all hoping and praying for a change in our country’s legislation. Pictured are two of our Pennsylvania Sisters, Sr. Mary Luchia and Sr. Jhoan Marie. Let us hope that before long the law will change and this march will no longer be necessary.
The year 2020 is the one hundredth anniversary of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate! Founded on August 15, 2020 in New York City by Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, we currently serve God and His people in the United States, Philippines, and Nigeria.