pandemic

  • Catching Up: Celebrating 2020 Jubilarians Together

    Catching Up: Celebrating 2020 Jubilarians Together

    July 8, 2021

    On June 26, 2021, the Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids celebrated our 2020 Jubilarians. Their celebration a year before, like so many gatherings, was postponed due to the worldwide pandemic. The delay made our time together especially sweet. It was a wonderful celebration of the lives, the Holy Preaching, of: Sr. Julia Mae Groulx (70 Years); 60 […]

  • Saturday Story: Finding Ways to Shine Light In the Dark

    Saturday Story: Finding Ways to Shine Light In the Dark

    April 24, 2020

    For most of us, we have likely never lived in a world that is so aware of sanitizing everything as we are today. We wash our hands constantly and use sanitizer when we can’t wash. We are wiping every surface that can be touched. We are wearing face masks to help protect others in case […]

  • Saturday Story: As I have done for you…Jesus spoke

    Saturday Story: As I have done for you…Jesus spoke

    April 17, 2020

    As Dominicans, we welcome community. We seek to find God’s face in one another. Before March 14, 2020 our community welcomed all to gather in Dominican Chapel at Marywood, weekly, for Sunday Eucharist to celebrate God’s love in our daily lives. But in the times of COVID-19, even Holy Week leading us into Easter was […]

  • A Reflection for the week of March 23… Welcome All That Arrives

    A Reflection for the week of March 23… Welcome All That Arrives

    March 24, 2020

    A reflection for the week of March 23… May you find comfort in slowing your mind and a spiritual deepening in focusing on your soul center. The Dominican Sisters~Grand Rapids invite you to a pattern of contemplation through these weekly reflections. We pray for and with you. May God bless you and keep you in […]