The Dominican Sisters of Springfield and their Associates observed the global Season of Creation, a time of prayer, reflection, and action focused on caring for Earth, our common home. The 2026 theme, “Living Water,” invited participants to reflect on “our need to respect the rights of water and use carefully and judiciously the gift that
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What can a work of art preach? That question was at the heart of a Sept. 23 Study Day that brought together Dominican Sisters of Springfield and Dominican Nuns from the Monastery of Mary the Queen in Girard, Ill. Gathering at Sacred Heart Convent, the Sisters and Nuns reflected together on the theme “The Beauty
St. Pope John Paul II is known to have said, “Faith is strengthened when it is given to others.” Three cheers for how the Rosary College Prep Dominican Preachers did just that on Weds, Sept. 8th. The girls, led by Rosary’s Campus Minister, Mary Sutarik, were invited to facilitate a Confirmation retreat for the
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Sisters were recently busy creating a Poet Tree in the Sacred Heart Convent library. Formed in a semi-circle the Sisters were invited to share their own poems they had written or share one by their favorite authors. Sister Judith Curran shared with the others a poem by Robert Frost, the final three lines of the
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Our Sisters participated in the “Opening Minds Through Art” program at the Springfield Art Association and recently invited their art volunteers to an afternoon of fellowship at the motherhouse.
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For Sr. Susan Karina Dickey, OP, the path to becoming a Dominican Sister began when she was just 14 years old. Growing up Lutheran, she was encouraged to consider ordained ministry, beginning a spiritual journey that would eventually take her from the Lutheran tradition to the Episcopal Church and, ultimately, to Catholic religious life. Along
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From childhood piano lessons at the Motherhouse to her work today as a potter and parish volunteer in Virginia, Dominican Associate Mary Helen (Call) Rowland has carried the influence of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield throughout her life. “I am deeply grateful for these brilliant, generous women who love and serve our Creator, and share
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A lemonade stand might seem like an unusual sight inside a convent, but on Aug. 4, Sacred Heart Convent’s library became the setting for a little taste of summer – complete with lemonade, cookies, conversation and plenty of good books. The morning gathering was organized by Sister Beverly Jeanne Howe, OP, director of the Motherhouse library, as a
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Join the Celebration To join in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’s Declaration of Independence, the Dominican Sisters Conference is remembering and honoring 250 Dominican women religious who have helped shape this country. Honoring our patron saints, this celebration will begin on the Feast of St. Dominic (August 8,
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Sometimes, all you can do is to be there. Just BE there. Presence to suffering, to all types of pain, is an invitation to enter deeply into the lives of others and into the Paschal Mystery of Jesus. In these brief reflections our Sisters and Associates share their experiences of grief accompaniment through loving presence
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Last fall about 25 Sisters made the 30-mile drive from Sacred Heart Convent to the Dominican Monastery of Mary the Queen, Girard, for the first-ever local Dominican Family study day involving these two branches of the Order of Preachers. The event brought together the apostolic sisters and the nuns on the feast of Dominican luminary
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This past April Marisela and Vanessa Soto, twins and now graduates of Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, Ill., were featured on CBS news in Chicago for responding to United Way’s annual April Food Drive. These two seniors reached out to the school community to help. The thread of the message in the video clip
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When the new St. Dominic Hospital opened on Lakeland Drive, it was a dream come true for the Dominican Sisters and the community which had rallied behind them. Recently, I related the story of some of the Jackson businessmen and Catholic clergy who advocated on behalf of the new hospital. Today, I want to tell
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