Our Marywood Campus

  • Expanding Natural Habitat at Marywood in Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Expanding Natural Habitat at Marywood in Grand Rapids, Michigan

    May 31, 2023

    Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids (DSGR) love God’s creation and celebrate, steward, and protect it. We work hard to assure that the Marywood campus – a greenspace in the City of Grand Rapids – continues to provide habitats for wildlife, supports biodiversity, and supports opportunities for ecological spirituality. “Today, May 31, 2023, 21 trees were […]

  • Dominican Sisters are Refusing to Use or Buy Single-Use Beverages in Plastic Bottles All Week

    Dominican Sisters are Refusing to Use or Buy Single-Use Beverages in Plastic Bottles All Week

    March 2, 2023

    Join our Care of Earth commitment during Catholic Sisters Week Refuse to Use or Buy single-use beverages in plastic bottles all week. We are teaming up with Catholic Sisters across the country on this one. Together with Dominicans and Catholic Sisters across the country, we have committed to “Refuse to Use” any single-use plastic beverage […]

  • A New Year Message from Prioress Sister Sandra Delgado OP

    A New Year Message from Prioress Sister Sandra Delgado OP

    January 4, 2023

    Looking back and forward, I can’t help but think of Ephesians 4:7: “But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.” (NAB) These past three years have not been easy years and yet our employees continue to offer gifts beyond measure. As a leadership team, we have observed and […]

  • Invite to Pray for United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27

    Invite to Pray for United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27

    November 3, 2022

    Please join us in prayer for a successful and positive outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference November 6 – 18. Commonly referred to as COP27, this 2022 conference is being held in Egypt, in the city of Sharm El Sheikh, November 6 to 18. “Sharm El Sheikh is Egyptian for the city of […]

  • Catholic Sisters of Michigan Statement Against Divisiveness of Elections

    Catholic Sisters of Michigan Statement Against Divisiveness of Elections

    November 3, 2022

    IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Statement of Leaders of Catholic Sisters of Michigan   November 3, 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan – The elected leadership of six congregations of Catholic Sisters in Michigan issued the following statement, addressing the divisiveness of national elections.   We decry the violent divisiveness that is characterizing our upcoming national elections, threatening the […]

  • Tree Planting at Marywood with Friends of Grand Rapids Parks and Dominican Sisters

    Tree Planting at Marywood with Friends of Grand Rapids Parks and Dominican Sisters

    November 2, 2022

    Saturday, October 29 was the first of several planting session with Friends of Grand Rapids Parks. With a 34-acre Campus at the corner of Fulton Street and Lakeside Drive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids  have the potential to transform some of our spacious lawns into beautiful stands of trees. While […]

  • Relevant Awareness – Pope Francis’ Journey to Canada

    Relevant Awareness – Pope Francis’ Journey to Canada

    August 5, 2022

    During the week of July 24-30, 2022, Pope Francis made a penitential journey to apologize to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada for the Church’s part in colonial assimilation, removal from families, and cultural abuses carried out in government funded residential schools operated by Religious Congregations. In the Pope’s words: “I am sorry. I ask forgiveness […]

  • Dolls and Critters Made with Love

    Dolls and Critters Made with Love

    June 1, 2022

    In 2019, Nancy Malburg OP called Bethany Christian Service and asked “What can the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids do to comfort the children caught up in the refugee and immigration crisis?” When told the children arrive with nothing, Sister Nancy put into motion a plan that would put creature comforts into the arms of children. This […]

  • Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters say goodbye to their home of 100 years reports Fox 17 News

    Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters say goodbye to their home of 100 years reports Fox 17 News

    March 10, 2022

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters are getting ready to say goodbye to the place they’ve called home for 100 years. The Sisters are in the last stages of moving out of Marywood off of Fulton Street. “The Tabernacle is gone, and that was hard to see that go. The Tabernacle was […]

  • Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids Follow Historic Cross to New Home

    Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids Follow Historic Cross to New Home

    February 23, 2022

    On Sunday, February 13, during Mass in Dominican Chapel/ Marywood, Sisters surrounded a wooden cross placed in front of the altar at the last Eucharist the community would celebrate in this sacred space. This cross has been with us in each of our motherhouses – in Traverse City where we were founded in 1877; to […]