New Mexico

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  Sister Inspiration: Las Posadas with Angelina Gonzales, OP

  December 21, 2017

    For 40 years, each Advent season, Sister Angelina Gonzales shepherded Mary and Joseph; accompanying them in their search for shelter before the birth of their child. Sister Angelina led the 9-day novena of scripture called Las Posadas, meaning “inns”. It is a remembrance of the Christmas story as told in the Gospel of Luke […]

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  Sister Angie Gonzales Leaves Santa Cruz, New Mexico for Michigan

  June 17, 2017

  Angelina Gonzales, better known as Sister Angie, is no stranger to hard work and service. She didn’t mind it when she was 10 years old and making adobe blocks in the hot sun of Glorieta, N.M., with her brothers, and she hasn’t minded it during her last 40 years of service at Holy Cross Catholic […]

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  A Ministry of Presence with Dominican Sisters in New Mexico

  May 1, 2014

  Most of the Sisters living and working in New Mexico today were born there and have families in the region. They were drawn by the example of a previous generation of Dominicans to join our Congregation. For all the Sisters called to or from the Land of Enchantment, it is their love of New Mexico […]

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  Living a Ministry of Prayer Coupled with Action

  March 18, 2014

  Pray for the Living and the Dead Prayer is a vital part of each Sister’s ministry. Every year when all members of the Congregation gather to affirm their ministry commitments, each Sister also affirms her prayer ministry. These typically reflect something close to her heart and can change annually or remain the same for years. […]

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  Sister Bernice Garcia

  October 7, 2009

  Dominican Sr. Bernice Garcia was in the fourth grade when she knew she wanted to be a religious sister. Now 72, she has witnessed the trajectory of religious life through the latter part of the 20th century into the 21st and the concurrent changes in church life. She was parish administrator, effectively the pastor, of […]