Oh! God comes every day!
Oh! I thought to myself as I read kind, reasoned words, cautioning against alienating our immigrant neighbors who contribute so much to our community. Oh, I groaned, at the latest news of unethical and incompetent political leadership. Oh, I marveled, as I watched one of my sisters gently lead another, weaker member of the community to her place in choir. Oh, a friend pondered, as he recognized the magnitude of the work needed to free himself from the […]
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Sister Mary Xavier Kelly, OP
Sister M. Xavier’s Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m.—6:15 p.m., Monday, December 16, 2019, Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. Visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Monday, December 16, 2019, Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Dominican Father Peter Witchousky, celebrant. Morning Prayer, Remembering, and Final Commendation: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel. Burial follows at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Dominican […]
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Dominican Justice Promoters: Oppose U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Sister Marcelline Koch Signs National Call To Keep U.S. in Global Agreement About the photo: Dominicans at COP25. From left, Sister Cecilia Espinella, Laurence Blattmer, Sister Marcella Zambrano, Father Xavier Gomez. A strongly-worded letter to delegates attending this week’s UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid includes the signature of Springfield Dominican Sister Marcelline Koch, who represents Dominican sisters and brothers from North America as the co-promoter of Justice, Peace, and Care of Creation. Her co-promoter is Dominican Father […]
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Advent and Christmas:
Seasons that Never End
Once Thanksgiving rolls around, there is hardly a resident of the United States who can escape the tidal wave of excess known as “The Holiday Season.” It carries us forward on a momentum of joviality, food, drink, gift-giving, and good will. Not a bad thing in itself, if it doesn’t obscure the foundational event that gives it its meaning. “Liturgical Excess” In fact, it is not just the retail world that spills its excess all around us. […]
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Why a 30-Year Call
for Closing SOA/WHINSEC?
Springfield Dominican Sisters Pat Stark, Georgiana Stubner, and Marcelline Koch were joined by other Dominican Sisters and hundreds more people at Fort Benning, Georgia, Nov. 16-17 to participate in a vigil at the gates of the fort where for nearly 30 years the faith-based SOA Watch has worked to end training programs for Latin American armies who learned violent techniques they’ve turned against their own people. Springfield Dominican Sisters have been present at most of SOA Watch vigils […]
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Sister Ann Therese Haupers, OP
Sister Ann Therese’s Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m.—6:15 p.m., Monday, November 25, 2019, Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. Visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Monday, November 25, 2019, Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Dominican Father Peter Witchousky, celebrant. Morning Prayer, Remembering, and Final Commendation: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 26, 2019, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel. Burial follows at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Dominican […]
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Springfield Dominican Leadership Expresses Dismay over U.S.
Pull-out of Climate Agreement
Among 1300 Catholic Sisters Nationwide to raise voices against harmful climate policies The leaders of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield join the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in expressing dismay over the start of the Trump Administration’s formal withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, signed on to by nearly 200 nations in 2015. Echoing the LCWR message published on Nov. 7, 2019, Sister Rebecca Ann Gemma, OP, the congregation’s prioress general, said “It is dismaying to see […]
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Giving Tuesday: Holiday to Be List
Giving Tuesday means providing hope to homeless children The Matthew Project One of the ministries the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois are pleased to be involved with is The Matthew Project. The Matthew Project was founded earlier this year to provide tutoring, school supplies, food, clothing and life skills training to homeless children in District 186. Project creator Ann Libri hopes to give these students opportunities to grow up with a healthy body and mind and tools needed […]
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