News
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800th Jubilee Essay Contest Winners Announced
December 12, 2016
NEWS RELEASE On the occasion of the 800th Jubilee year of the Dominican Order, the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids held an essay contest which was open to high school, college, and life-long learners. We are pleased to announce that two Aquinas College students, Natalie Smith and Patricia Schlutt, wrote the winning essays. The invitation to […]
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Donation to Santa Claus Girls from Dominican Sisters Grand Rapids
December 8, 2016
The Santa Claus Girls have been active in Kent County for over 100 years. Last year they delivered gifts to 14,613 children from 6,133 families. Four years ago, Sister Marge Stein suggested to a few Sisters that this looked like a good project – making hats and warm scarves for the Santa Claus Girls project. […]
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Welcome Baskets for Once Homeless Veterans, Families
November 27, 2016
Each year, our Committee to End Homelessness works with friends of our Congregation to collect and compile welcome baskets for people who are moving back into a home environment after some length of time; some haven’t had a place to call home in years. The baskets contain cleaning supplies and household items. In 2016, we […]
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Dominican Sisters Oppose Dakota Access Pipeline
November 15, 2016
The Dominican Sisters Conference supports the Standing Rock Sioux in opposing the underground pipeline through North Dakota that would transport 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day through the state to South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. People who live in the region are concerned about water supply contamination, oil spills, and ecological destruction of sacred land. […]
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Sister Joan Pichette, A Boy, and a Library Card
October 13, 2016
Sister Joan Pichette loves reading to children and has always delighted in bringing stories to life, during her career as an elementary school teacher and later as a librarian at Grandville Avenue Neighborhood Library. The seeds of Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities (GAAH) were planted in the mid-1990s when the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood Association and […]
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How To Get Involved in the Justice Ministries of the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids
October 12, 2016
Sisters, Associates, and Friends are invited to join us on three different levels of commitment: PRAYER ALERTS and STUDY COMMITTEE WORK Persons signing up are placed in a distribution list for contact. Alerts and study opportunities are sent by email to everyone with the understanding that those who promised to pray do give prayer support. […]
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Marywood Academy Alumnae Non-Potluck Potluck 2016
October 4, 2016
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Discovering Dominican Charism; Discovering Myself
October 2, 2016
As an incoming freshman, I was aware that Aquinas College was a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition; however, I had no interest in its religious identity. I believed the stereotypes and assumptions about Catholicism. I allowed the negative connotations to influence my personal association with religion and tried to keep my distance. As an […]
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Advocating for the Rights of People in Poverty in the United States
October 2, 2016
Training teachers and integrating principles of Catholic social teaching into curriculum came easily to justice-minded Dominican Sister Joyce Ann Hertzig. “I was once asked how one could integrate Catholic identity or Catholic Social Teaching into a math class. ‘Develop a story problem about the ratio of food to people in the world,’ I suggested,” says […]
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“Catholic School Dropout” THE MOTH Podcast with Sr. Mary Navarre
September 2, 2016
Listen to the storytelling of Grand Rapids Dominican Sister Mary Navarre, OP, on this THE MOTH podcast. Here is a little background on this special story. THE MOTH shares podcasts of stories told at past live events. Earlier this year in September in Grand Rapids, and in March in Traverse City Sister Mary Navarre was onstage for LIVE […]