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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Celebrating 150 years Ceremony For the Life of the World
Saturday, August 19, 2023 – Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Springfield, Ill.-The culmination of a year-long celebration of 150 years of ministry for the life of the world took place at 10 a.m. this day, as more than 450 Springfield Dominican sisters, associates, friends, and honored guests celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for the many gifts God has bestowed on the congregation since its founding in 1873. On August 19 that year the congregation’s founding sisters arrived in Jacksonville […]
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Sister Marianne Nolan, OP
Sister Marianne’s Services Visitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Monday, August 21, 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 Monday, at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Father Joseph Molloy, celebrant. Wake and Mass will be livestreamed. Burial: 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, August 22, 2023, Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery Livestream Links Wake Service Funeral Mass Burial Springfield Dominican Sister Marianne Nolan, […]
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Brotando a la acción Por la Vida del Mundo
Por Hermana Kelly Moline, OP Un manantial se origina cuando el agua que se mueve bajo tierra encuentra una grieta en la superficie y emerge, a veces como un chorrito, a veces solo después de una lluvia, como un flujo continuo. Un manantial se forma cuando la ladera de una colina, el fondo de un valle u otra excavación se cruza con el agua subterránea en o por debajo del nivel subterráneo local, por debajo del cual el […]
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Are you willing to choose a “wild and precious” life?
This article was first published in the July 23, 2023 edition of the State Journal-Register. In the above photo we see Sister Mila Diaz Solano, center, celebrating her 25th profession anniversary with family and friends. Last weekend (July 16, 2023) we had a glorious celebration at Sacred Heart Convent for the anniversaries of eleven sisters who made their profession of vows, 25, 50, 60, and 75 years ago. These annual rituals are something we sisters look forward to. […]
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