This article by Sister Susan Karina Dickey, OP, first appeared in the Fall 2017 JUST Words under the title Rehabilitating Dominican Religious Life: An Historical Perspective. Something new One of the memorable things about St. Dominic was his willingness to try something new while borrowing and adapting from the past. For example, the idea of […]
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Springfield Dominican Sister Mary Pauletta Overbeck died October 13, 2018, at Sacred Heart Convent. She was born in Dieterich, Ill., in 1915, and named Pauletta Madonna by her parents, Frank and Kathryn Petry Overbeck. She made her profession of vows in 1935 at Sacred Heart Convent. Sister M. Pauletta was blessed with a full ministerial
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This essay first appeared in the October 7, 2018 edition of the Springfield State Journal-Register’s Beliefs column, to which Sister Beth Murphy is a frequent contributor. “This is a chapel built for the ages!” So exclaimed an awe-struck teenage visitor to Sacred Heart Convent Chapel last spring. It’s true. The chapel where we Dominican Sisters
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Take it to Prayer A Spiritual Reflection for Voters You are invited to spend a few moments with God before you go into the voting booth. Take it to Prayer: A Spiritual Reflection for Voters, was developed by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Ill., and is distributed through the Dominican Sisters Conference to
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Dominican Sisters Welcome the Public for Solemn Evening Prayer October 7 Like all Catholic sisters around the world, the Dominican Sisters of Springfield gather at least twice a day for Liturgy of the Hours, a prayer tradition that pre-dates Christianity. The sisters’ prayer incorporates psalms, canticles, and sacred texts from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Springfield
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The largest group of Dominican Faith Campers in recent memory enjoyed a fun and faith-filled three days at Sacred Heart Convent July 8-10. Twenty-four junior high school girls were matched up with a “Sister Buddy” at Sacred Heart Convent, where the camp was held. The sisters prayed for the campers and
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“They were scared to come to the convent,” said Susie Williams about her daughters Lexi and Abby. “But after their first visit they were begging me to come back.” Susie and her daughters aren’t Catholic and had no experience with Catholic sisters until Susie started cooking at Sacred Heart Convent, the Dominican Sisters’ motherhouse in
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Today is National Sugar Cookie Day! Sister M. Concepta Joerger, OP unveiled her fantastic sugar cookie recipe in March after the video was retweeted 43 times on Twitter and shared 355 times on Facebook. Here is the sugar cookie recipe! Enjoy! SUGAR COOKIES 1 c. margarine 1 c. sugar 1 c. powdered sugar 1 c.
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Standing with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the 38,000 Catholic Sisters they represent An open letter to the nation, When religious-based discrimination is permitted, especially when sanctioned by those at the highest levels of government, the free-exercise of religion by members of all faiths is threatened. This week the Dominican Sisters of
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Springfield, Ill.—The Springfield Dominicans’ first-ever online fundraising appeal is going viral and overwhelming the sisters with messages of gratitude. It also demonstrates that religious life is vital to the future of a spiritually grounded and peaceful world, the sisters’ vocation director says. Was one of our Sisters your rock? Is the theme for the
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Happy National Catholic Sisters Week! Student journalists Logan Evans and Max Hartwig made a short film asking Sacred Heart-Griffin students, “What is the difference between a nun and a sister”? Sister Phillip Neri Crawford, OP, Sister Phillip Neri Crawford, OP, Sister Rosemary McGuire, OP, Sister Martha Carmody, OP, Sister Mary Brendan Gibbons, OP, and Sister
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This story by Sister Geraldine Kemper, OP, first appeared in JUST Words, Winter 2018. Many organizations depend on volunteers to achieve their mission. What motivating force compels someone to volunteer time, knowledge, energy, and love? Pope Francis said during an audience last March, “Love and charity are service, helping others, serving others. There are many
“Forget Yourself
And Think of Others”
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“Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.” Mark 1: 3 As we come this year to celebrate Christmas, we recall the nativity scene of 2014 in the Christian camp in Ankawa- Iraq, which was a tent among the tents of the displaced people who fled ISIS. Now, three years later, many
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‘It is so hard to think of tomorrow in Iraq’ An Interview with Dominican Sister Luma Khudher, OP Sister Luma Khudher, OP, a member of the Dominican Sister of St. Catherine of Sienna’s leadership team in Iraq, taught this summer at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. During a visit to the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Ill.,
This year, as we have done for many years around the feast of All Saints, we publish these simple memorials to our sisters who have died in the past year. Please share these happy memories with us, and pray with and for our sisters who now share in the life of God in a way
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