Sister Mary Brendan’s Services Visitors are welcome. Visitation: 4:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. The visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Peter Witchousky, OP, celebrant. Morning …
Sister Mary Brendan’s Services Visitors are welcome. Visitation: 4:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. The visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Peter Witchousky, OP, celebrant. Morning …
Springfield, Ill.—Sunday March 31 was the day the Dominican Sisters of Springfield welcomed members of their monthly donor club, dubbed “Bearers of the Flame,” to join them for Sunday Mass and brunch at Sacred Heart Convent. About 15 individuals and families joined in the celebration, including Mark and Sue Quinn from Naperville, Ill., and Alyssa …
Bearers of the Flame:
Monthly Donors Join Sisters
for Sunday Celebration Read More »
Zeta Lambert feels teens should spend less time staring at their phones and more time interacting with real people. Now’s she’s doing her bit to try to make that happen. The Sacred Heart-Griffin Senior teamed up with SHG’s video production class and the Dominican Sisters to produce “See Beyond Your Screen,” a series of public …
Meet the teen on a mission
to save her peers from phone addiction Read More »
It’s balm for my soul to feast on today’s scripture texts, though in many Catholic parishes the readings will not be these. (They are different if the parish is preparing to receive candidates into full communion with the church at the Easter Vigil.) To follow along, find Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 and Luke 13:1-9. Lately I’m …
Springfield Dominicans Join International Collaboration How do we pass on the Dominican charism at this critical moment in our history? How do we create new, relevant expressions of the Dominican charism to ensure its ongoing vitality through the formation of the present and future generations of sisters and lay partners? Houston, Texas—Dominican sisters and lay …
Dominican Charism Initiative Launched in Houston Read More »
Springfield Dominican Sister M. Brendan Gibbons died suddenly and unexpectedly this morning, April 9, 2019, at St. John’s Hospital, Springfield, Ill. She was born in Gridley, Ill., in 1934, and named Mary Bernadette by her parents, Ralph and Camilla (Cleary) Gibbons. She made her profession of vows in 1954 at Sacred Heart Convent, Springfield, Ill. …
What happens when a sister falls in love with a mobster? How I discovered the mobster who loved one of my Dominican Sisters. About two years ago I was summoned to Sister M. Pauletta Overbeck’s room. She handed me a home-recorded DVD in a ratty brown envelope and asked that I help her watch the …
Sister M. Megan’s Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Thursday, March7, 2019 at Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. The visitation will begin with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 7, 2019 at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel with Father Peter Witchousky, OP, celebrant. Morning Prayer, Remembering, …
Springfield Dominican Sisters Ruthanne Huss and Henrianne Schmidt were the celebrities of the day in Jerseyville, Ill., on Sunday February 24, 2019. They were in town for the dedication of the new office space at St. Francis Xavier/Holy Ghost School, where our sisters taught for more than 100 years. “We were very happy that three …
