Happy Earth Day 2019!
Happy Earth Day from the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois! Here is an Earth Day Prayer adapted from the Green Church Project, Montréal, Canada: Leader: Creator God, we pray for our brothers and sisters of the air: chickadees, cardinals, blue jays, owls, crows, seagulls… ALL: Give us a sign through them to decrease the pollution in the air we breathe. Creator God, let us pray. Leader: Creator God, we pray for our brothers and sisters of water: shellfish, […]
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What is General Chapter?
What’s Significant about theDominican Sisters’ Meeting This Week? “General Chapter” is one of those terms Catholic sisters use that makes almost no sense to anyone else. This evening, Monday April 22, 2019, the Dominican Sisters of Springfield begin their “General Chapter.” Why is it such an important time for them? The dictionary defines chapter as a) a division of a book, b) a period of time in a person’s life, c) the local branch of a national or […]
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Happy Easter from the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois
Easter Message from Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois Dear Friends, Do we believe? Can we hope? Is this real? Today, on this Easter Sunday, we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. But this is far more than a ritual of remembrance! Today, let us lift our voices in faith crying out, “YES, Christ is alive!” Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, we are the body of Christ allowing Love to flow into […]
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Easter Promises New Life
Lent is a time of sacrifice followed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Holy week is a time of hope for all humanity despite our human nature to make fearful decisions as a pack. Pilate placed a purple robe on Jesus and asked the crowd, “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” “Crucify him!” they shouted. (Mark 15:13) As Lent comes to an end consider the new life, opportunities […]
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Sixth Sunday of Lent—Passion Sunday
Download the PDF. Goal 1 – No Poverty End Poverty in all its forms everywhere. Summary: While extreme poverty has diminished since 1990, the United Nations reports that 11% of the world’s population (nearly 800 million people) still live on less than $1.25 per day and without basic social protection systems. Poverty is an ongoing, daily Way of the Cross for so many women and men, children and elderly, disabled and infirm. May our love and thirst for […]
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Sister Mary Brendan Gibbons, OP
Sister Mary Brendan’s Services Visitors are welcome. Visitation: 4:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Aquinas Center, Sacred Heart Convent, 1237 W. Monroe St. in Springfield. The visitation begins with a prayer service. Funeral Mass: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Peter Witchousky, OP, celebrant. Morning Prayer, Remembering, and Final Commendation: 10:30 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2019 at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel. Burial follows at Calvary Cemetery. Springfield Dominican […]
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Mark Quinn:
“I owe my faith to the sisters”
Mark and Sue Quinn value the witness of the sisters who’ve blessed their lives. For Mark, a teacher of business and finance in the Chicago suburbs, that includes his teachers at St. Walter Parish on Chicago’s south side: Sister Aloysius (Sister Mary Ann Droste) and Sister Monica Finnegan—and Sister Aniceta Skube, whom he met in adulthood at Ss. Peter & Paul in Naperville. His gratitude to the Springfield Dominicans is perpetual. “They taught me to read, to use […]
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Fifth Sunday of Lent
Download the PDF. Goal 5 – Gender Equality Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Summary: They were ready to stone the woman to death—but not her partner in the act. Discrimination and violence against women—both physical and structural—continues to be all too common in our world. May we hear and heed the call this Lent to empower women, knowing that is one of the surest paths to the common good and a flourishing society. Reflection question: What […]
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