News
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Eco-Justice, Care of Earth and the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids
July 22, 2017
Care of Earth Commitment Caring for our common home is a Dominican Value. In fact, since 1992, the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids have been engaged in care of earth initiatives in support of our Relationship with the Earth Direction Statement: Our Care of Earth Committee The Care of Earth Committee engages in efforts to identify specific areas of […]
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Justice Committees of the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids
July 22, 2017
Each of our Justice Committees welcomes Sisters, Associates, and Friends to respond to a call for justice. Would you like to learn more? A good first step is to contact our Justice Promoter or talk with a committee member and find out about the committee’s work. Care of Earth Committee That’s our core group of Care […]
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A Jubilarian Shares Her Story – Sister Mary Catherine Fodrocy, OP
July 21, 2017
In our Dominican tradition, we celebrate Jubilee years of Sisters. We are blessed to recognize Jubilarians for their vowed lives and service for 80, 75, 70, 60, 50, and 25 years. We honor each woman and the unique contributions she has made to the world and to our Congregation mission. Each Jubilarian tells her own story […]
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A Jubilarian Shares Her Story – Sr. Theresa Bray, OP
July 14, 2017
In our Dominican tradition, we celebrate Jubilee years of Sisters. We are blessed to recognize Jubilarians for their vowed lives and service for 80, 75, 70, 60, 50, and 25 years. We honor each woman and the unique contributions she has made to the world and to our Congregation mission. Each Jubilarian tells her own story […]
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Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters Cared For Many Children at St. John’s Home
July 14, 2017
In the late 1800’s, a large number of children were left homeless on the streets after epidemics swept through West Michigan. Catholic church leaders and citizens came together to build St. John’s Orphanage in Grand Rapids. Dominican Sisters from Traverse City were called Grand Rapids to help care for children at the new shelter. St. John’s Home […]
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Sisters and AQ Students Engage in National SisterStory Project
July 12, 2017
Lindsey Bacigal (’17), a junior communications major at Aquinas College, and and Alice Wittenbach, OP first met with curiosity and uncertainty. The pair were just one of several who met and formed friendships as part of the national SisterStory oral history project. My own lack of religious devotion was part of what led me to […]
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Peace Activists Laud Nuclear Weapons Ban
July 11, 2017
Catholic sisters and other peace activists who have worked decades to end the nuclear threat lauded an agreement reached July 7 by 122 countries at the United Nations that outlaw nuclear weapons. For longtime activists like Sisters Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte, Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the agreement — which nuclear states like […]
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Peace Activists Laud Nuclear Weapons Ban
July 11, 2017
Catholic sisters and other peace activists who have worked decades to end the nuclear threat lauded an agreement reached July 7 by 122 countries at the United Nations that outlaw nuclear weapons. For longtime activists like Srs. Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte, Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the agreement — which nuclear states like […]
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Catholic Heart Workcamp Servant Volunteers in Grand Rapids
July 10, 2017
Is there anything more exciting for a pre-teen and teenagers to do than pulling nasty bindweed, creeping Charlie, thistle and daisy fleabane from an acre of native plants? Perhaps more interesting would be pulling invasive daisy fleabane or digging out stubborn buckthorn seedlings or hauling water jugs and watering new plants!! How about doing those […]
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A Jubilarian Shares Her Story – Sister Monica Meyer, OP
July 7, 2017
I was born in Albee Township into a “Yours, Mine, and Ours” family on September 22, 1928. I was the 17th child in a family of 18 where I learned love, sharing, forgiveness, generosity and hard work! My parents, immigrants from Germany and Czechoslovakia, were farmers and so I grew up living on an 80-acre […]