Prayer Requests

Meet Sister Colette Barker:
Prayer Central Director, Sacred Heart Convent

Leave a Comment / Featured, Prayer Requests, Sister Stories / By Sister Beth Murphy, OP

Every day an email containing a litany of prayer needs arrives in the inboxes of every Springfield Dominican Sister and associate in the world. These requests pour in regularly at Sacred Heart Convent in Springfield—motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters and home to nearly 100 sisters. Eventually all these requests, collected from the four winds by …

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What is prayer? How does it work?

Leave a Comment / Featured, Prayer Requests / By Sister Mary Jean Traeger, OP

Human beings have prayed for thousands of years. Most of us who are people of faith give prayer a significant place in our daily routine. That’s not new. Human beings of various faith traditions have been praying for thousands of years. Many learned simple prayers at our mother’s or father’s knee: prayers like the Our …

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Sister Mary Anton Uthe, OP—2018 Jubilarian

Leave a Comment / Featured, Life & Prayer, Life and Prayer, News, Prayer Requests, Sister Stories / By Sister Beth Murphy, OP

Springfield, Ill.—It is a rare thing to count life-commitment milestones in multiples of 25. The Dominican Sisters of Springfield are blessed with ten such milestones this year for sisters who have been faithful to living the evangelical counsels for 25, 50, and even 75 years. The eldest jubilarian is Sister Mary Anton Uthe, who was …

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Meet Sister Colette Barker:
Prayer Central Director, Sacred Heart Convent

What is prayer? How does it work?

Sister Mary Anton Uthe, OP—2018 Jubilarian

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