Sister M. Elise Bocke, OP
Sister M. Elise Bocke ServicesVisitation: 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, died […]
Read MoreHope 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, […]
Read MoreDominican 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 […]
Read MoreSister 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, […]
Read MorePope 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 […]
Read MoreSister 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 […]
Read MoreWelcoming women to religious life: New vocations team takes up the challenge
Springfield, Ill.-The Dominican Sisters of Springfield are pleased to announce a newly appointed ministry team to welcome those discerning a call to Catholic sisterhood, consecrated religious life. Sister Mary Jo Sobieck, OP, assumes the role of Minister of Vocation Animation and Sister Denise Glazik, OP, serves as Minister of Vocation Accompaniment. Most recently Sister Mary Jo has been immersed in learning Spanish language and culture through a series of experiences learning, living, and ministering in Spanish-language contexts. […]
Read MoreIn-house pilgrimage offers prayers for our world
How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Habakkuk 1: 1-3 After hearing this scriputre on Sunday, the sisters at Sacred Heart Convent found themselves asking “What is ours to do?” Their response was to hold a rosary pilgrimage on October 7 in celebration of the Feast of […]
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