Dominican Sisters Contribute Brains to Major National Alzheimer’s Study
33 Sisters, ages 60-89, begin study this month Sponsored by Rush University Medical Center’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center Called the “Religious Order’s Study” More than 1350 sisters, brothers and priests participating nationwide since 1994 Internationally renowned neurologist David Bennett chairs the study A Rush University Medical Center researcher puts Sister Ann Clennon through her paces. Mobility testing is part of the baseline for this long-term study of Alzheimer’s Disease. Springfield, Ill.—Researchers from Rush University Medical Center have arrived […]
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Join us in praying the Building Blocks of Peace
The Building Block of No Poverty Reader: We pray that families and all people may have rights and access to economic resources, live with the basic necessities of life and enjoy life in all it has to offer, All: God of abundance, show us how to share. The Building Block of Zero Hunger Reader: We pray that no one will suffer from lack of food and the nutrition needed for healthy and productive living. All: God of fertile […]
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Sister To All
In honor of the Sister To All Campaign to tell the stories of Sisters across the United States, we would like to share with you four of our featured sisters in ministry. A Friend to Prisoners and a Sister to All Sister Regina Marie Bernet, OP For decades the Dominican Sisters of Springfield have engaged in ministry to women and men in prison in the United States and in Peru. Sister Regina Marie Bernet, OP (Order of […]
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“Talk about giving your life to God”—A story of friendship, service, and call
Sister M. Trinita shares her friendship with Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, the two sisters whose murder in Mississippi last week has shocked the nation. Yesterday afternoon I called Sister Mary Trinita at the community health clinic she’s run for twenty years in Jackson, Miss., wondering if she knew the two sisters who were murdered last week in the nearby town of Durant. The […]
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Dominican Sisters Win Cultural Diversity Award from National Senior Care Organization
LeadingAge Recognizes Sisters’ Anti-racism Efforts The Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, have been selected to receive the 2016 Hobart Jackson Cultural Diversity Award from LeadingAge, a national association representing 6,000 nonprofit aging-services organizations throughout the United States. The award recognizes the Dominican Sisters’ “Conscious, committed effort to dismantle racism wherever it exists,” according to the award letter. “Through education, organization, and numerous collaborations, the Dominican Sisters are engaging with city, public school and state agencies, as well as […]
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11 steps to Engaged Citizenship
How to make sure you’re ready to vote on November 8 We’re about eleven weeks out from the Presidential elections. Are you on top of the issues and concerns you’ll address with the pull of a lever or the punch of a stylus on November 8? If not, here are eleven ways to prepare for your civic duty in national, state, and local elections. Tackle one step a week. By election day you’ll be ready to cast […]
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The Sisters from OLG: Where are they now?
Curious about the sisters who taught you? Lots of memories and stories float around the community from places we’ve served a very long time, like at Our Lady of Grace Parish in Chicago where we’ve served happily for 100 years. Here’s a gift to our friends at OLG: We’ve rounded up a few of your former teachers and principals and invited them to share their memories of life at the intersection of Ridgeway and Altgeld. Enjoy the walk […]
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Safe Travels Sister Kelly!
Sister Kelly Moline, OP made her way past a group of sisters wishing her a safe trip this morning. Sisters gave the blessing for travelers—it was a tearful, yet joyful goodbye. Say a prayer of Sister Kelly as she begins her two year ministry at the St. Martin DePorres Convent on the south side of Chicago. Sister Barbra Blesse shared an old family saying, and a tissue, to help lift Sister Kelly’s spirit: “Nothing is so bad that […]
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