Photo taken from monastery website “We all are wounded by the war but these people look up to us. So we must bring them healing and wholeness.” Sister Geraldine Tar, OP Pope Leo was in Cameroon today, bringing encouragement for healing to the nation. The Dominican Sisters, Nuns of the Monastery of the Mother of […]
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It’s open application time for national service immersion event hosted in Springfield Women who are discerning a call to religious life are invited to Mr. Lincoln’s Hometown in June for a national event hosted by the Springfield Dominican Sisters. Applications are being received now, and up to fifteen women will be selected for participation in
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Those who missed the Springfield Dominican Sisters’ recent Brown Bag Lunch series or who want to revisit the conversations are in luck. Now you can access the videos of the 3-session series for your own study or to share in a group of your family, friends, or parish. “We believe strongly in the wisdom contained
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Sister Anne Lawrence Buchmiller’s ServicesVisitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Mon., Oct. 27, Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Mon., Oct. 27, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Dominican Father Robert Kelly, presiding. Wake and Mass livestreamed at springfieldop.org/livestream/ Burial: She will be laid to rest
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“If I had had my Sisters of St. Dominic near, they would not disappoint me!” So said General Sherman the night before the planned unveiling of President Lincoln’s Tomb and Monument. During the Civil War, then some nine years past, the “Nuns of the Battlefield” were well known to have served in conditions as harsh
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By Cynthia Gallo Callan Cynthia Gallo Callan, is a Springfield Dominican Associate who works for the Diocese of Springfield. “Change is the only constant” is an expression that sometimes keeps people afloat. It has spun over the generations and is widely accepted as the norm. But sometimes change comes too fast and furious, and when
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Sister Martha’s parents, Martin and Georgia Cox Carmody, are deceased now, but did not fail to root Martha and her five siblings in the discipline of military life or a strong faith of rural Calhoun County, Illinois, where they farmed in the county seat of Hardin in the rich alluvial soil between the Illinois
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Sister Linda Sue was born in Springfield to Norman and Hazel Shearburn Turner. She joined the Catholic Church at St. Sebastian Church, Waverly, at the age of 19. She attended Illinois State University and Los Angeles City College and was employed first at Franklin Life in Springfield for three years and then as a long-distance
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Sister M. Zachary Sergeena was born in Chicago and baptized Penelope Marie at St. Mary of the Angels Church there. Her parents raised “Penny” and her sisters, Micheline and Sharon, in the city. Micheline is deceased; Sharon expects to be present at Sacred Heart Convent for a family jubilee celebration in late April, along with
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Springfield, Ill.—Students at the Springfield Learning Academy sought support from the Dominican Sisters of Springfield for their effort to have the city council proclaim the second Monday of October Indigenous People’s Day. They found it in the form of an intervention from Sister Marie Michelle Hackett. She was invited to join the students at the
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Guided by the Holy Spirit, we join with others to re-imagine a future of promise and hope. – 2024 General Chapter Statement Resources for discerning your vote: a. Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/upload/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship.pdf b. Equally Sacred Checklist (one sheet) https://networkadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Equally-Sacred-Checklist-FINAL-English.pdf c. Equally Sacred Checklists (expanded) https://networkadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ALL-Freedoms-One-Pagers-2-sided-2024-UPDATED.pdf d. Irshad Manje: How to Bridge Divides: five
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Guided by the Holy Spirit, we join with others to re-imagine a future of promise and hope. – 2024 General Chapter Statement THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON Each of us is made in God’s image. Human dignity is not dependent on race, creed, color, economic class, political power, social status, culture, personal abilities, gender,
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Guided by the Holy Spirit, we join with others to re-imagine a future of promise and hope. – 2024 General Chapter Statement In a sense, November 5 is just around the corner. We have the privilege and responsibility to vote, to take part in our nation’s political and public life. In 2024, we exercise that
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Peek into the lives of these two sisters whose home may be small—but whose impact flows beyond its walls in gentle, deep, and surprisingly global ways. Dawn at the tiny Alton convent. “Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your
