“The Healthy Restlessness of Incompleteness”: Groundings for a Synodal Future
By Sister Phyllis Schenk We find ourselves in a time of all-encompassing unrest. There are great divisions in our world with violence and inflation; pandemic and immigration; political and religious beliefs which are poles apart. Those things we counted on in the past now appear uncertain. There is so much fear and insecurity. All our endeavors are moving at such a fast pace. Where is the firm ground where we can feel rooted and centered? At one time […]
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Catholic Sisters invite you to join them in prayer and fasting for the Middle East
Dominican Sisters of Springfield are among the hundreds of women religious joining the Church of the Holy Land and people throughout the world in a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the Middle East on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. In a letter sent to its membership On Monday, October 16, 2023, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) wrote: ” The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, on behalf of the bishops of the Holy Land has asked […]
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Join us for a Meet Our Sisters Tour watch party
Springfield Dominican Sister Beth Murphy and Father Joe Molloy, a priest of the Springfield, Ill., diocese, talk about “call,” what happened when they were ready to give up, and the way family and parish can impact women’s and men’s decisions to discern vocations to priesthood and religious life. Father Joe’s interest in the priesthood wasn’t solid the day he walked in seminary door. Sister Beth had “no plan” that included consecrated life. Now, forty years later, each is […]
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What is the Church?
This infographic from the Synod office at the Vatican is simple and profound. Take your time as you view it. What does it say to you about your own place in the Church, the People of God?
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The global Synod assembly is over: Now what?
About the photo: Springfield Dominican Sisters organized, facilitated, and participated in synod listening sessions in 2022 while the world was still taking COVID-19 precautions. To hold a “synod” means to walk together. I think this is truly the most wonderful experience we can have: to belong to a people walking, journeying through history together with their Lord who walks among us! We are not alone; we do not walk alone. We are part of the one flock of […]
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Dominican Literacy Center honored by Library of Congress
The Dominican Literacy Center in Aurora, IL, was recently selected as a 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program Successful Practices Honoree. The Center will receive a $5,000 award and be honored at the Successful Practices Conference at the Library of Congress on October 18. The award recognizes the successful practices of building one-on-one relationships and grassroots organizing that keeps humanity at the heart of literacy experiences. The award is sponsored through the generosity of David M. Rubenstein, […]
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Sister M. Angelita Nickele, OP
Sister M. Angelita’s Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, September 1, 2023, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, 1237 W. Monroe St., Springfield, IL 62704. Visitation will begin with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m. on Friday, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Michael DeTemple, OP, celebrant. Wake and Mass will be livestreamed. Burial: 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 5 2023, Calvary Cemetery Livestream Links Wake Service Funeral Mass Burial Springfield Dominican Sister M. Angelita […]
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Sisters welcome SH-G students back to school
The excitement was in the air as Sacred Heart-Griffin students went back to school August 17. SHG campus minister Molly Murphy invited some of our sisters to welcome the students and arranged for this fun back-to-school photo station. SHG’s new president, Dr. Bill Moredock photo bombed a few of the groups!
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