Partners in Mission: How faith and family impact giving
By Sister Kathleen Anne Tait, OP Judy Babb Troxell is deeply grateful to her mother and father, Harry and Eileen Marron Babb, for the grounding in faith and the “DNA of giving” they instilled within her, and her siblings. Her earliest memories are of putting coins in her weekly children’s church envelope and watching her father write the check for the Sunday offering. Judy’s mother grew up with little, but gave away in abundance. Her parents’ generosity […]
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Solidarity: Finding and hearing the voice of God in a wounded and broken world
By Margaret Lombe My reflection is informed by Catholic social teaching and centers on finding and hearing the voice of God in a wounded world. I often ponder on the question “How do I witness to the gospel values in love and truth amid the many wounds that characterize our world today, wounds of systemic inequalities, environmental trauma, racism, polarization, violence, indifference, and political tumult? Like many teachers, I am confronted with questions from my students. One student […]
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Sister M. Elise Bocke, OP
Sister M. Elise Bocke Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Mon., Nov. 3, Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Mon., Nov. 3, 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 at Calvary Cemetery, 10:00 a.m. Tues. Nov. 4. Those services will livestream on Facebook @springfieldop. Springfield Dominican Sister M. Elise Bocke, OP, […]
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Hope for Dominican life
By Jean Ann Miller Summertime is now a memory, but during that time, Sisters Denise Glazik and Mary Jo Sobieck filled their days preaching the gospel with their lives. Sister Denise has been the vocation director for the sisters since 2019. Sister Mary Jo, who taught for many years at Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, Ill., has filled the last few years with Spanish-language learning and intercultural immersion. She is joining Sister Denise in the vocation office, […]
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Dominican Veritas Ministries team visits Rome
Earlier this month Sisters M. Paul McCaughey and Sister Kathleen Anne Tait travelled to Rome for a meeting at the Vatican regarding Dominican Veritas Ministries, the entity charged with ensuring that Dominican and Catholic values are passed on through the schools under the sponsorship of DVM. Members of the DVM board met with the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life for the purpose of answering their questions about DVM and receiving affirmation […]
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Sister Anne Lawrence Buchmiller, OP
Sister Anne Lawrence Buchmiller’s Services Visitation: 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 at Roselawn Memorial Park, 10:00 a.m. Tues. Oct. 28. Those services will livestream on Facebook @springfieldop. Springfield Dominican Sister Anne Lawrence Buchmiller, […]
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Pope Leo: Building Bridges of Hope and Healing in the Church
By Sister Barbara Blesse, OP Do you recall where you were the day Pope Leo XIV was elected? A citizen of the United States and Peru, Augustinian friar Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, born in Dolton, Ill., was chosen by the College of Cardinals May 8, 2025, to succeed Pope Francis. The shock and joy of the election of a U.S.-born pope permeated conversations for many days afterwards. The “six degrees of separation” theory of a small-world network clicked […]
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Sister Teresa Marron honored with named scholarship
Sister Teresa Marron returned to her home parish for a class reunion in August and was pleasantly surprised to learn the school established a scholarship fund in her name: The Sister Teresa Marron St. Malachy Scholarship Fund will support the financial needs of St. Malachy students for years to come. Additionally, on August 23, the Feast of the Dominican St. Rose of Lima, the parish launched a two-year fundraising campaign to build a new parish hall, named, in […]
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