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“The Healthy Restlessness of Incompleteness”: Groundings for a Synodal Future

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By Sister Phyllis Schenk We find ourselves in a time of all-encompassing unrest. There are great divisions in our world with violence and inflation; pandemic and immigration; political and religious beliefs which are poles apart. Those things we counted on in the past now appear uncertain. There is so much fear and insecurity. All our […]

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Catholic Sisters invite you to join them in prayer and fasting for the Middle East

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Dominican Sisters of Springfield are among the hundreds of women religious joining the Church of the Holy Land and people throughout the world in a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the Middle East on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. In a letter sent to its membership On Monday, October 16, 2023, the Leadership

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Join us for a Meet Our Sisters Tour watch party

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Springfield Dominican Sister Beth Murphy and Father Joe Molloy, a priest of the Springfield, Ill., diocese, talk about “call,” what happened when they were ready to give up, and the way family and parish can impact women’s and men’s decisions to discern vocations to priesthood and religious life. Father Joe’s interest in the priesthood wasn’t

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The global Synod assembly is over: Now what?

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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

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Dominican Literacy Center honored by Library of Congress

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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

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Celebrating 150 years Ceremony For the Life of the World

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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

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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.

Are you willing to choose a “wild and precious” life?

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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

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Sister Carole Dittrich, OP

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Sister Carole’s ServicesVisitation: 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Monday, July 31, 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, Dominican Father Michael DeTemple, celebrant. Wake and Mass will be livestreamed.   Livestream

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Mary of Magdala: A Visual Feast

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Mary of Magdala is the patroness of the Order of Preachers, call the Apostle to the Apostles because she was the first to “go and tell” the Good News of the Resurrection. Here are some ideas to celebrate her feast day, July 23. Read the lectionary readings for her feast. Listen to a preaching by

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