Ministry Presence
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Catholic Sisters Week Food Drive Wrap-Up and Thanks
March 22, 2023
“Celebrating Catholic Sisters Week and the food drive was an adventure. Generosity, kindness, empathy and goodwill made this food drive a fitting celebration of Catholic Sisters. The Sisters volunteered their time and donated food, personal items, baby items and even cat food! The floor of a 9-foot U-Haul van was covered twice with donations. With […]
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Sunday Assembly: Re-Uniting, Re-Connecting, and Re-Visioning
March 22, 2023
Almost exactly three years since the doors to Dominican Chapel/Marywood were closed because of the COVID 19 pandemic, members of the Sunday Assembly and Sisters gathered at Dominican Center Marywood at Aquinas College on Sunday, March 19, 2023, for re-uniting, re-connecting, and re-visioning. Hugs, laughter, and tears punctuated stories told at tables– stories about what […]
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Catholic Sisters Week: We Found a Place at Your Family Table
March 9, 2023
Thank you Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids for being models of joyful service, Christian kindness, and human love. Because of you and your commitment to inclusiveness, truth, justice, and peace, we the Dominican Associates have found a place at your family table. We continue to stand by you and share in your mission to praise, […]
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Catholic Sisters Week: Thank You Sisters!
March 8, 2023
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ~ Matthew 6:21 In 2000, I enrolled my son Andy in school at Lake Michigan Academy on the campus of Aquinas College. I could not have imagined where this move would take us in life. Living in Greenville and driving him to Grand […]
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Catholic Sisters Week: Celebrating Sister Ann Walters OP
March 7, 2023
Sister Ann Walters is a Grand Rapids Dominican Sister who, along with Sonja Visser, was my mentor through the Associate development process. She is also my spiritual advisor. One tends to think that Sisters are holier than most people in the world…and they are. But Sister Ann is the kind of Catholic Sister who reminds […]
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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 […]
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DSGR STATEMENT CHILD LABOR TRAFFICKING IN GRAND RAPIDS
March 1, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Given our educational and social service history with children, we Dominican Sisters commit ourselves to act as their advocates in local, national, and international communities GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – March 1, 2023 — We Dominican Sisters were horrified to learn of the migrant children in our own backyard who are victims of […]
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We Support the National Black Sisters Conference Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols
February 1, 2023
The Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids join with all who are grieving the horrific and untimely death of another young Black man, Tyre Nichols. We stand with the National Black Sisters Conference crying out: “How many lives will it take? How often must we bear witness to the senseless killing of African Americans by the police? Where […]
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The Right to Comfort and the Fear of Conflict
January 27, 2023
Inclusion Learning The Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids Inclusion Team exists to foster growth and transformation that creates, supports, and sustains a diverse, inclusive, and racially equitable culture on the Marywood campus. This is not easy work, nor do we approach it lightly. We challenge ourselves to engage in the work of anti-racism. And we […]
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USA: Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty Now
January 25, 2023
January 22, 2023 was the 2nd anniversary of the enforceable Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). I joined witness and advocacy actions this week as we called upon the United States to sign this treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Sixty eight (68) countries have now ratified it and another 24 countries are actively […]