Calls for Church to Work Toward Racial Justice Loralean Jordan (SHG ’87) was raised in Springfield, Ill., on the fine parenting of Leroy and Johnetta Jordan and 12 years of Dominican education. She is firm in her Catholic faith and in her belief that it’s time for the institutional church to dedicate its zeal and …
Sister Maria’s Services Private burial at Calvary Cemetery, 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 7. A memorial mass will be held at Sacred Heart Convent at a later date. In lieu of flowers or visits, donations may be made to the Dominican Sisters Retirement Fund, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL, 62704.The Dominican Sisters and family of …
What if we declared July 4th Interdependence Day? You think you know how our founding declaration begins? “When in the course of human events…” Turns out, that’s not strictly true. The original document, housed now in pride of place at the National Archives, begins like this: “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of …
Dominican Sisters International (DSI) is a global confederation of Dominican Sisters. The DSI Solidarity Fund is supported by many congregations of Dominican Sisters for use in emergency situations such as faced in Peru, Brazil, and Argentina today. Dominican Sisters of Springfield serve in Peru where, according to Sister Mila Diaz Solano, “The pandemic is affecting …
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This first appeared in the June 16, 2019, issue of the State Journal-Register, where I write regularly for the Beliefs column. Yes, that’s my dad, John C. Murphy, Sr., on furlough in 1943, and in 1971, sporting new Providence High School gear in support of his daughter’s high school pick. Add your Dad Share a …
Cor Unum is One Heart in Latin. The name was chosen to anchor the project in the Dominican Sisters’ story and move it toward an evolving future. In 1893, when the Jacksonville-based Dominican Sisters moved to Springfield, they became known as the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Fast forward almost 130 …
Sister Anne Lawrence celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Anne Lawrence was born in the south-central Illinois community of Greenville, and spent the greater part of her 60 years of religious profession educating children in Central Illinois. Her early years were spent in elementary schools. She taught most grades at one time …
Sister Margaret Mary celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Margaret Mary has ministered in a variety of ways throughout her 60 years of religious profession. The first 18 years were given to elementary education in parochial schools, then she embarked on seven years teaching religious education in two of the rural religious …
Sister M. Harold celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Mary Harold gave the first 25 years of religious profession to elementary education, teaching and administering schools—sometimes at the same time! During her year in Granite City, she undertook the important task of helping to merge two parochial elementary schools. The next 11 …
Sister Judith celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Judith Hilbing (Sister Francis Irene) has given her 60 years of religious profession to the education of youth and the promotion of a more just world. After 18 years teaching elementary school students in the United States, she answered the call to what would …
Sister Bernadette Marie celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. After a dozen years teaching elementary school children, Sister Bernadette Marie made the switch to library science, and to decades of service in the three high schools owned by the community: Marian Catholic, Sacred Heart-Griffin, and Rosary. Her dry wit and insatiable curiosity made …
Sister Colette celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Colette Barker’s longest mission by far was Rosary High School in Aurora, where, for 28 years, she was executive assistant to the schools administrators. She loved it at Rosary, she says, but all the other places she ministered were equally important to her, for …
Sister Myra celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Her profession is Sister M. Timothy’s “fault.” Sister Myra claims “it’s Sister M. Timothy’s fault” that she is a Dominican instead of a Franciscan Sister. She tells the story like this: “I met Sister Timothy at Our Lady of Grace (Chicago) before I entered the …
Sister Mary Dominic Joerger celebrates 75 years of religious profession in 2020. Small in stature, it seemed ordained that she devoted most of her religious life to teaching primary grades. Second grade was her favorite because it allowed her to prepare her students for First Communion, a responsibility she delighted in. A native of Mendota, …
This week Father Gerry Kleba, retired pastor of St. Cronan’s Parish, St. Louis, contacted me about his long-ago friend, our Sister Maxine Riker. When I shared the news that Sister Maxine died in 2015, he replied by sharing this story, which we publish with his permission. His friend Charlene, who is central to this story …
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