Advent
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Advent 2023 — Week 4 — A Visit to Remember
December 20, 2023
ADVENT WEEK Four Luke 1:26-38 A Visit to Remember God comes each morning to greet me by name, “Hail, full of grace. I am with you.” I AM troubled by this greeting, I AM puzzled by its meaning, I AM in need of some clarification. So I PONDER IN SILENCE: To be a vital […]
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Advent 2023 — Week 3 — Sent by Name to Testify
December 15, 2023
ADVENT WEEK THREE John 1:6-8, 19-28 Sent by Name to Testify John the Baptist is a Voice crying out in the wilderness: PREPARE GOD’S WAY. His listeners are not certain who he is. Christ? Elijah? a Prophet? NO! Like John, each one of us has been sent by name to Testify that Jesus […]
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Experience ADVENTure 2023: Watch Online!
December 8, 2023
What a beautiful way to celebrate the season of Advent! How wonderful it was to connect with all of you and share in the laughter and joy of being together. We want to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who joined and especially those who helped make the event a wonderful success: Sisters, staff, […]
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Advent 2023 — Week 2 — Be Messengers
December 7, 2023
ADVENT WEEK TWO Mark 1:1-8 Be Messengers The Spirit of God dwells within us and urges us to Prepare the Way for God’s Word, Jesus Christ. Our Baptism challenges us to Cry out, to let our Voice be heard, to Call out in earnest. Send us as creative Messengers…. Telling stories that instruct, […]
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Called to Be Present — Advent 2023 — Keep Watch
December 1, 2023
ADVENT WEEK ONE Mark 13:33 Keep Watch We have been placed in charge of our God’s household and our common home. We are each gifted sufficiently and differently. May we use this present time for vigilance, for courage, for caution, for observation, for risking in God’s Service. Every day We Watch for Refugees […]
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Advent O Antiphons Evening Prayer (Online)
December 15, 2022
Join the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids for Advent O Antiphons Evening Prayer from December 17-23. The O Antiphons are short, Scripture-based Advent prayers from the Middle Ages that are part of the prayer of the Church in the Liturgy of the Hours. Each year, the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids host this beautiful seven-night experience of prayer, song, […]
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theWord: Thursday of the First Week of Advent with Megan McElroy OP
December 1, 2022
Thursday of the First Week of Advent with Megan McElroy OP Reading: Isaiah 26:1-6; Matthew 7: 21, 24-27 December 1, 2022 It sounds so obvious, doesn’t it? Any civil engineer or architect will give the same advice as Jesus – build on solid ground, not on shifting sand. As sound as such advice is, and […]
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First Sunday of Advent: Come let us climb the Lord’s Mountain
November 30, 2022
First Sunday of Advent – A Homily by Megan McElroy OP Readings: Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24: 37-44 November 27, 2022 “The mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it; many peoples shall come and say, ‘Let […]
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Advent 2022
November 29, 2022
Advent summons us to the beginning. The lavishness of God’s compassion and mercy frame yet another year for us. With the arrival of Advent’s first Sunday, we attend to this mystery one more time. … Our Christian tradition proclaims this as both an event already accomplished in human history and an event moving toward fulfillment […]
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O Wisdom: Seek Wisdom, Look Around See it Everywhere
December 17, 2021
Seek wisdom: Look around, see it everywhere Oh! Wisdom, how we need you now more than ever A reading from the Book of Proverbs 8:1-12: Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice? On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand; by the gates at the […]