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OP Lenten Journey: Palm Sunday
April 10, 2019
Reflection: Damian understood that most of us find it easier to believe in punishment than in mercy. We just cannot grasp the depths of God’s love and compassion for us. So we live our lives in fear. Yes, we have needed Lent—40 days to marvel at God’s mercy and love for us revealed in Jesus […]
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International Delegation Accompanies Communities that Resist Extractive Model
March 28, 2019
The presence of more than 75 people representing various human rights organizations, religious and religious in the United States, is a sign of the concern that many international sectors have about what happens in Honduras. This week the so-called Delegation of Ambassadors for Peace visited several regions of the country, to share with the communities […]
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OP Lenten Journey: 3rd Week of Lent
March 22, 2019
May the God of Promise be with you. May God be for you encouragement and guarantee of holiness and happiness. May you know God’s pledge of faithfulness and unconditional love. And may your own vow of faithfulness bring God’s promise of life into the lives of those you touch. May the God of Promise be […]
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Central American People Face Extreme Hardship in 21st Century World
March 11, 2019
Events to Raise Awareness about Honduras and El Salvador “The people of Central America (including El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) face extreme hardship in our 21st Century world,” says Joan Williams, OP. “It’s up to us, those who have a voice, to speak out against systemic political, economic, and social injustice.” In March, the Dominican Sisters~Grand […]
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OP Lenten Journey: 1st Week of Lent
March 8, 2019
Be still and know that I am God! Psalm 46:11 On this first week of Lent…I will listen for God’s voice this week. Perhaps Psalms will be my guide, or a prophet preaching, or a Saint’s witness. “I will follow those whose hearing is attuned to the still, small whisper of love, whose prayer deepens […]
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Dominican Delegates to join Iraqi Dominican Sisters in Kurdistan and Nineveh Plain, November 14-25
November 9, 2018
U.S. Dominican Women Travel to Iraq in Solidarity with Nineveh Plain Returnees “We have family in Iraq.” Dominicans throughout the United Sates have echoed this sentiment for many years, through much suffering of Iraqi civilians. It has been four years since the Sisters of St. Catherine in Iraq, along with Christians and other religious minorities, […]
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Inspired to Serve: Mary Catherine Fodrocy, OP and Dorena Gonzalez, OP
October 10, 2018
It was May when Sisters Dorena Gonzalez and Mary Catherine Fodrocy were inspired to attend the Who is My Neighbor? series at St. Alphonsus Parish. The series is about real people, real stories, and real life and was created to bring deeper understanding about people, life circumstances, and world views. Since then, both Sisters’ fellowship […]
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Sister Inspiration: Marie Joy Yuhasz, OP
August 23, 2018
Music has always been important in Sister Marie Joy’s life. Both parents were musicians who first taught her to play the piano at the age of five. Her piano studies continued with more teachers. When she was about to enter the seventh grade her family moved to Taylor Township in Wayne County. There she attended […]
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Sister Inspiration: Orlanda Leyba, OP
April 27, 2018
The teachers that we remember are the ones who instill in us a sense of wonder or insight about the world and Sister Orlanda Leyba was one of those teachers. “I used as many opportunities as possible to present Jesus as a model to imitate. In doing so, I often spoke about Jesus the REBEL, […]
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Her Story: Sister Inspiration – Josephine Mary Birchmeier, OP
December 15, 2017
She knits, sews, and cooks and bakes. None of these are easy tasks for a women whose hands can be painfully uncooperative due to Lupus. Yet, what Sister Josephine “Jo” Birchmeier describes as her homemaking ministries continue to be a blessing to our Congregation of Dominican Sisters and to the West Michigan community. Sisters who […]