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High school students from Marian Catholic and Sacred Heart Griffin posing with the green hills of Jubilee Farm in the background.

Dominican high school preachers visit Sacred Heart Convent

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Dominican student preachers from Sacred Heart Griffin and Marian Catholic high schools gathered at Sacred Heart Convent recently for a one-day immersion in Dominican life with the goal of sharing their experience with their peers.  Nineteen students learned about the rich history of the Springfield Dominicans starting their educational journey with Sister Ann Clennon who […]

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Sister Suzanne and SIster Barbara Ann in the vegetable gardens at Sacred Heart Convent.

Spring Appeal 2024: “Thank you! for supporting our environmental efforts”

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Your generosity will have an impact on our ability to be witnesses to another way, a way that can transform our world   If you get overwhelmed, as we ourselves do sometimes, with the magnitude of the challenge, how about some comfort food?  In the video we shared last week you saw how our kitchen staff

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Spring Appeal 2024: “No bottled water in my home. Period.”

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“No bottled water is allowed in my home.” Jean Ann’s daughter was dumbstruck. She grew up with bottled water in her house. She always drank bottled water. Why, now, was her mother banishing the plastic wrapped case of water she was accustomed to using? WHAT changed?  Kate didn’t’ know it yet, but her mother had

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Class of 2024 Dominican Associates makes commitment

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Dominican Sisters welcome Associate class of 2024  Springfield, Ill. — A commitment ceremony for the 2024 Springfield Dominican Associate class was held in-person at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel on Sunday, May 19, 2024.  During the homily of the Mass Father Robert Kelly, OP, chaplain for the Dominican Sisters, thanked the associates for their commitment and

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Spring Appeal 2024: Reducing our Carbon Footprint

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There are various ways to reduce our carbon footprint and at Sacred Heart Convent we are helping the earth with smart choices. Listen as Brad Cox, Matt Pryer and Reggie Britton explain the steps they are taking to help the earth. A gift from you will go a long way to sustain our efforts to

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Spring Appeal 2024: “Jubilee Farm is Caring for Earth and Caring for you”

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Without clean air and water, healthy soil, and a reduction in the consumption of Earth’s gifts, Earth cannot sustain life. That is why our sisters everywhere, in the U.S. and Peru, work to reduce our carbon footprint. Sometimes our efforts don’t seem enough. But without them, change will never come. Help us with a gift

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New Leadership Team elected, Term begins June 15, 2024

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We are pleased to announce that at the conclusion of General Chapter, on Sunday April 7, 2024, these women said yes to our calling them forth for leadership:  Sister M. Paul McCaughey  Prioress General-elect   Sister Joanne Delehanty Vicaress General-elect  Sister Elyse Marie Ramirez  Second Councilor-elect   Sister Kathlyn Mulcahy  Third councilor-elect    “We come to a

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Declaración del Capítulo 2024

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Ingles Nosotras, las Hermanas Dominicas de Springfield, guiadas por el Espíritu Santo, nos unimos a otros y otras para reimaginar un futuro de promesa y esperanza.  Enraizadas en nuestra oración por la vida del mundo y en el cuidado de nuestra casa común, nuestros asociados/as y colaboradores en la misión, estamos fortalecidas para caminar juntas

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Sister Myra Flahive, OP

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Sister Myra’s ServicesVisitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704. Visitation will begin with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Robert Kelly, OP, celebrant. Livestream Visitation prayer service and Mass of Christian

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Miracle on the Lake: A heart-racing story of near-tragedy for Dominican Sisters of Springfield

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Podcast highlights impact of women religious for Catholic Sisters Week March 8-15. Available here March 8. Springfield, Ill.—A heart-racing story about a near-tragedy that befell ten Springfield Dominican Sisters in 1972 is the centerpiece of the congregation’s Catholic Sisters Week observances this year. Two Springfield Dominicans, Sister Margaret Grueter and Sister Marie Michelle Hackett, share

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Sister Patricia Burke celebrates 60 years of religious profession

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Sister Patricia Burke, for a time known as Sister M. Malachy, made her profession of vows June 19, 1964 and spent most of her 60 years of profession in high school education, though she began her teaching ministry in a primary school classroom. She was born to Patrick and Mary Burke in County Offaly, Ireland,

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