As we kick off Catholic Sisters Week 2025, March 8-14, we are excited to launch the #LikeaCatholicSister campaign — a national initiative that showcases the courageous and diverse ways vowed women religious help change the course of history.
For generations, Catholic Sisters have been breaking barriers, advocating for justice, leading in education and healthcare, and fostering spiritual growth. Their presence in communities—both past and present—are a source of strength, hope, and transformation.
The mystery of God’s transformational presence in our lives is awesome!
During Catholic Sisters Week and Women’s History Month, the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids will highlight Sister voices and stories — all inspired by living a life of service in mission to the world.
“As we take inventory of the condition of our world, we raise our voices to say that the people among us who are the most in need, who are most vulnerable, need to have our attention and they need to have supportive resources. We pledge to hold the needs and concerns of all in a contemplative space, in the heart of a loving and ever faithful God… and we pledge to continue to work together with all people to build God’s beloved community in this place we call home.” ~ DSGR Congregation Direction Statement
Hope empowers us to speak truth, act with compassion, and work tirelessly for justice and peace. In 1964, Sisters marched for civil rights on Fulton St. in Grand Rapids just as, today, we support the call for immigration reform and the rights of immigrants and refugees fleeing destruction of their homelands, violence, and persecution.
#LikeaCatholicSister – YOU, too, can use your voice and your presence, every day and in little and big ways to transform our world.
Jesus became human to show every person how to love wholehearted, selflessly, inclusively, unconditionally.
“Even in our messy humanness, we are called to live our commitment made in baptism: to grow in the love of God. Through the 7 days of Catholic Sisters Week, and beyond, we hope these stories about our Sisters will inspire you to deeper relationships and a growing sense of community responsibility for the common good,” said Megan McElroy, OP, prioress of the Congregation, based in Michigan.
“We extol the dignity of every human life, made in God’s image, a truth revealed in Genesis. To live that truth we take a stand, by preaching and action, against all threats to human well-being. The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties” of all people – of those threatened by war abroad or gun violence at home, of prisoners, of the sick, of children in the womb, of mothers in crisis – these too are our “joys and hopes … griefs and anxieties.” (Cf. Gaudium et Spes, #1.)
Source: Direction Statement: Peace and Security for All Life
