Since the very beginning of our community, the Sisters of Life have been reaching out with practical assistance and spiritual and emotional support to pregnant women in crisis. In the Jubilee Year 2000, we launched an apostolate now known as the Visitation Mission: a mission of love, in person and by phone, to vulnerable, pregnant women. By providing the emotional and practical resources a woman needs, we hope to allow her the opportunity to respond with courage and dignity to one of life's most difficult moments.

To date we have been very privileged to serve hundreds of young women who have found themselves pregnant under circumstances that have created a very real experience of a major crisis in their lives. Almost all who contact us have been abandoned emotionally and often physically by those in their lives to whom they normally look for support: the fathers of their unborn children, their parents, close relatives, friends and co-workers.

Many have reached out to us determined to somehow find a way to give their babies life, after having suffered one or more abortions in a pain-filled past. They come from all walks of life including young teens from families suffering great brokenness; middle-class college students who become pregnant through the violence of rape at campus parties; well-to-do, career-focused women; women in fractured marriages, sometimes overshadowed by the darkness of domestic violence, now pregnant by a man not her husband. They are American, Italian, French, Indian, Hispanic, East-European and African, Guyanese, Jamaican, British ... with faith experiences as varied as their ethnicity: Southern Baptists, Hindus, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Seventh Day Adventists, New Age, Atheists.

In a culture of death such as ours, we see the beautiful miracle of God's grace at work in the lives of these women. Despite temptations from within and without to succumb to the terrible pressure of abortion, they have reached out, often in great fear and confusion, uncertainly groping for a different way. Our vocation as consecrated religious allows us to be the voice and agent of Christ's tender love and mercy to these women and their little ones. We strive to bring His peace, the gift of hope and a "beginning joy" to each of these women God sends our way, even amidst what the women themselves readily admit are "non-ideal circumstances." We have witnessed the truth that "life is always a good" as we have watched it slowly but surely blossom forth in so many of these courageous women with a heart faithful to the call to love.

If you or someone you know is pregnant and in need, please give us a call. You will be welcomed for who you are, and where you are at. We will do our best to walk with you until you are in a safe place.  Click here for one of our brochures and click here for our other brochure.

Call: The Visitation Mission at 877-777-1277 (toll free) or 212-737-0221