Celebrating ministry milestones in Peru
The above photo are Sisters Judith Hilbing, Adele Human and Anita Cleary after loading up their vehicle and leaving for the airport. For sixty years the lives of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield have been bound to the lives of the people of Peru. This week several North American sisters travelled to join the sisters in Peru for a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Peru foundation and the 25th years in the Andean community in Jarpa. […]
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Sacred Heart Convent Coworkers Establish Peer Support Group for Persons with Limb Loss
There is life after amputation, and perhaps no better proof-of-concept than Mike Tanner, a part-time receptionist at Sacred Heart Convent. “I rode a motorcycle for eight years with my first amputation,” he said. “Once, all the way to Sturgis, South Dakota.” Mike lost his left leg from complications of diabetes in 2014, and nine years later, his right leg as well. “When I lost my left leg my wife Barb and I went through it completely alone,” he […]
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News from Ukraine: ‘Hope does not disappoint’
A letter to the global Dominican Family from a brother in Ukraine Dear sisters, dear brothers, Ukraine is being talked about again, and the subject of war and peace talks has returned to the headlines of the biggest news agencies. This is mainly thanks to the newly inaugurated presidency of Donald Trump who through actions and pronouncements prevents the world from forgetting about Ukraine or Russia. It seems that ending the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that has […]
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Immerse yourself in service!
Single Catholic Women Invited to Summer Immersion Experience Dominicans Gather in Chicago in June Single Catholic women ages 18-45 who want to experience religious life and be of service are invited to participate in the Dominican Sisters’ Service Immersion Experience in Chicago. This unique opportunity, scheduled for June 21-25, 2025, allows participants to engage deeply with the mission and ministry of the Dominican Sisters while serving the local community and discerning their own path in faith and service. […]
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Sister Alverna’s ministry for the deaf trailblazes new path
Sister Alverna Hollis was a gifted artist, and, by all accounts, a serious-and wicked-tennis player. She taught elementary school for 13 years, and high school for another eight years. While teaching at Routt High School in Jacksonville, she was invited to consider learning sign language by a parishioner who worked at the Illinois School for the Deaf in that city so the children could learn their faith in their natural language, ASL. It was this skill that would […]
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CSW 2025 Sister Sharon Zayac: Redefining the narrative
As the child of a peripatetic military family, Sister Sharon spent her youth on U.S. military bases around the world. She joined the Dominican Sisters from Sacred Heart Parish, Redlands, Calif. Then she taught junior high and high school for about twenty years before transitioning to healthcare administration. She worked for about a combined dozen years at St. Dominic Hospital Jackson, Miss, and St. Mary-Rogers Memorial Hospital, Rogers, Ark. In the late 1990s, feeling drawn to the study […]
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Reflection on our Year Three LSAP Plan
“The measure of our courage is the measure of our willingness to embrace disappointment, acknowledge the wounds it causes, and rather than retreat from further participation, keep on insisting on what is good and possible for the world. In other words, hope.” Theologian Elizabeth Johnson shared these words as part of her presentation to the Catholic Climate Covenant gathering and we have shared her words with our sisters and associates. She spoke of hope as a muscle […]
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#LikeaCatholicSister: Sister Mila Díaz Solano
Sister Mila Diáz Solano joined the Dominican Sisters of Springfield in her hometown of LaOroya Peru, in 1998 and has since been instrumental in elevating the voices of persons not often heard in the U.S. Church, where she now lives and teaches. In 2000 she was among the pioneers at Parroquia San Juan Bautista de Jarpa, and other surrounding agricultural villages of Peru that in the 1980s and 1990s suffered much violence from the terrorist groups Sendero Luminoso […]
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