Thanksgiving

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  Prayer of Thanksgiving

  November 22, 2023

  Prayer of Thanksgiving O, God of the Universe, expand our hearts in Thanksgiving for loving us into being and for sharing your love in total gift of self poured out in Jesus Christ. Thank you for the beauty of all creation in nature and for our sisters and brothers around the world from every nation, […]

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  A Thanksgiving Prayer

  November 24, 2021

  “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is Thank You, it will be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart, Dominican theologian and mystic Today, we lift our minds and hearts in Thanksgiving. For the Gift of Life: its births, deaths, and rebirths that foster our growth, its letting go and holding on that […]

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  Sister Inspiration: A Prayer That We May All Be Thanks-Giving People

  November 27, 2019

  Each time we celebrate at the Eucharistic table Our hearts are broken open in Gratitude For the Love You lavish on us, O God. At our own tables of Hospitality today, We ask You, our Grace-ious God To fashion us into A Thanks-giving people, A For-Giving people, A Saints-giving people, A Care-giving people. May our […]

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  Sister Inspiration: Contemplating God’s Blessings

  November 21, 2019

  In these days leading up to Thanksgiving, we contemplate God’s many blessings, shared day in and day out.  For family and friends who en-courage us, For messengers of God who re-direct us, For our Body’s healing power, For the gifts of neighbors freely shared, For strangers who awaken us to newness, For the response-ibility to […]

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  Sister Inspiration: Seasons of Thankfulness for Educators in Michigan

  November 15, 2019

  In 1940, the parish of Holy Cross in the little town  of St. James, Beaver Island, in Northern Michigan was the setting for a small Thanksgiving Feast. Pictured from, left to right are Sisters Gilbert Popp, Agnes Dominic Roberge, and Leah Dorion, and a fourth Sister, missioned to teach at the Island’s only school. Winter’s […]

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  A Blessing for You on this Saturday After Thanksgiving

  November 22, 2017

  Puzzling is one of the contemplative practices enjoyed by Sisters at Marywood. The puzzle table attracts the diligent puzzlers and the drop-in puzzlers. The Korson Sisters: David Therese, Lydia, and Peter Mary are great puzzle fans. Sister Carmella Conway is also a regular. Sisters Margaret Kienstra and Carol Ann Nowak are avid puzzlers. Sister Linda […]

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  Thanksgiving Mass with Dominican Sisters Grand Rapids

  November 8, 2017

  The public is invited to join the Dominican Sisters Grand Rapids and Sunday Assembly at Dominican Chapel at Marywood on Thursday, Nov. 26 at 10:30 am for Thanksgiving Mass. We welcome Father Greg Heille, OP to help us celebrate this season of Thanksgiving. He is a true friend and colleague of the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand […]

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  November Worry

  September 15, 2009

  In November, I think of Tony. I was teaching then, and he was one of the difficult students in my class. His parents were going through a bitter divorce – so I tried to be patient with him as he wreaked havoc in our classroom. One day, he came in and said, “Sister, my Dad […]