The Difference We Make
Our social media channels and website allow our friends to share their stories, ask questions, and speak words of encouragement for our ministry. Often when one of our sisters dies, we learn amazing things about her from the remarks shared by people she touched throughout her life of ministry. When we share stories on our website and social media about the way we apply the gospel concerns that face our world, we sometimes hear from those who are […]
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Sister Samuella Talks about
Jesuit Brother Billy Menor’s Arrest
When Springfield Dominican Sister Samuella Volk learned of the arrest of her first-grade student, Jesuit Brother Billy Menor, she was concerned! That seemed so out of character for him! Once she learned Billy’s arrest was an act of conscience in protest of the conditions of migrant camps at the U.S. Mexico Border, she had something else to say: “He’s living out what we want for him and what we’ve tried to teach to teach to all our students.” […]
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Solidarity in Mississippi
About the photo: Sister Georgiana Stubner, center, and Sister Anita Cleary, right, visit after the prayer vigil in Forest, Miss., Saturday, August 17. Sister Mila Diaz Solano, a member of the Springfield Dominican Leadership team, organized a delegation of Springfield Dominican Sisters who traveled to Mississippi over the weekend to be in solidarity with the families affected by the largest immigration raid in recent U.S. history. Along with the Springfield Dominican Sisters who minister at St. Dominic Health […]
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Leadership Team Signs on to LCWR Letter to U.S. President
Learn about our nonstop response to God’s mission! Three members of the Springfield Dominican Sisters were among the 663 Catholic sisters who yesterday sent the U.S. President an open letter decrying his divisive rhetoric and asking him to engage, as most sisters do, in a daily examination of whether his thoughts and deeds match his beliefs. “We ask you, Mr. President, if you would consider a similar examination of the practice of your own moral authority.” Sisters Rebecca […]
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For Founders’ Day:
A precious Keepsake
A Boy Named Jack Once upon a time there was a young boy named Jack who lived with his parents in Joliet, Ill. On a table in the sitting room of their home there was a small stack of books important to their family that his father would read to Jack once in a while. One of the books was a “Forget Me Not Album” that belonged to Jack’s paternal great-grandmother, Bridget Schmalz. In the late 1800’s, such […]
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We Cry Out: Solidarity with
Mississippi ICE Raid Victims
A Statement of Solidarity with the Victims of ICE Raids in Mississippi from the Leadership of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois August 12, 2019 En español. In solidarity with the immigrant families of Mississippi, we cry out, as our Sister Catherine of Siena has exhorted us to do, with “a thousand voices” in recognition of the rights and dignity of children and families frightened and separated during the ICE raids on August 7, 2019, and in other […]
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Declaración de solidaridad
con las víctimas de las redadas
de ICE en Mississippi
Declaración de solidaridad con las víctimas de las redadas de ICE en Mississippi el 7 de agosto del 2019 por el Liderazgo de las Hermanas Dominicas de Springfield 12 de agosto del 2019 En Inglés. En solidaridad con las familias inmigrantes de Mississippi, clamamos con “mil voces” como nuestra Hermana Catalina de Siena nos ha exhortado a hacer, porque reconocemos los derechos y la dignidad de los niños y las familias asustadas y separadas durante las redadas de ICE […]
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Dominican Sisters Leadership
In Solidarity with Mississippi ICE Raid Victims
Call for Compassion, Understanding, and an End to Practices that Create Fear Springfield, Ill.— “In recognition of the rights and dignity of children and families frightened and separated during the ICE raids on August 7, 2019” the leadership of the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, “cry out” in solidarity compassion, and support. The sisters offer their solidarity to all those affected by the raids and “those who are living in fear,” the statement says. “We hope that you […]
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