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| July 24, 2013 |
Photos of the Week
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Province of the Holy Name of Jesus Fr. Lukasz Misko, OP (Western Province) led 40 students and young adults from Prince of Peace Newman Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, in a hike and an outdoor Mass by Lake Surprise in Central Cascades on July 6. Fr. Lukasz is the assistant director of the Newman Center. Read more, view photos |
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Sparkill Dominicans The Sparkill Dominican Sisters were surprised with a gift of three paintings by John Thorpe, father of Alice Mary Thorpe, founder of their congregation. The paintings were presented by Sister Anne Lythgoe, OP (Peace) following her keynote at the Sparkill congregation’s assembly in June. The paintings had hung in the congregational offices of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci, which merged with the Dominican Sisters of Peace last December. Read more |
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DVUSA From July 10 to 14 in Ossining, New York, 17 Dominican Volunteers celebrated the completion of their year of service at Mariandale Retreat Center, a ministry of the Dominican Sisters of Hope. This closing retreat was facilitated by Sisters Margaret Galiardi, OP (Amityville) and Carolann Masone, OP (Amityville). Read story by Michael Chapuran |
Adrian Dominicans
Congregation welcomes 201st associate
On July 15, the Adrian Dominican Sisters formally welcomed their 201st associate, Mary Margaret Bommarito. The ritual of acceptance took place during Vespers in St. Catherine Chapel, on the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ motherhouse campus. Mary Margaret, formerly Adrian Dominican Sister Bernard Michelle Felling, met the congregation as a student at St. Dominic School and Dominican High School, both in Detroit. Even after formally leaving the congregation, Mary Margaret taught with the sisters at Dominican High School and remained connected with the congregation. Read more, view photos
International Dominican Youth Movement
Blauvelt novice attends IDYM World Meeting in Bogota
In a recent blog post (“Where is the novitiate?”), Sister Jennifer Schaaf, OP (Blauvelt) writes about her experience at the International Dominican Youth Movement World Meeting in Bogota, Colombia. More than 200 youths attended the event July 7–17 on the campus of St. Thomas University.
What is Earth asking of the Order?
Reflection by Arlene Flaherty, OP (Blauvelt)
Within the taproot that gave rise to our Dominican Family in the 13th century is a wisdom understanding that every member of the Dominican Family is called to awaken within ourselves, and within every context to which we are sent in mission. The taproot wisdom at the heart of Dominican identity and mission can be described today as communion consciousness. Read more
Racine Dominicans
Sister Mary Ann shares insights on Middle East
Sister Mary Ann Pevas, OP (Racine) is a retired university professor who taught economics at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. She had the unique experience of going on sabbatical to Cairo, Egypt, where she learned Arabic and spent time talking with the “ordinary people” of Egypt. She also taught at Bethlehem University in Palestine. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience of the Middle East. She has a blog, “Insights about Egypt,” and was recently featured in a video interview with Sister Lois Aceto.
Dominican Nuns
Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
“Near the foot of the Hollywood Hills, in the shadow of the iconic white towering Hollywood sign, quietly sits the Monastery of the Angels, a community of Dominican nuns.” Br. John Maria Devaney, OP, writes about the first cloistered community of monastic women in Southern California. Read article in Dominicana
LCWR interview with Donald Goergen, OP
‘Encountering the Holy Spirit’
The Summer 2013 edition of The Occasional Papers, a publication of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), features an interview with Fr. Donald Goergen, OP. Fr. Donald addressed questions from Sister Annmarie Sanders, IHM, LCWR communications director, on “matters of contemplation and the Spirit.” Reprinted with permission. Read article (PDF)
Movies
World War Z
“Nothing simplifies life like a zombie apocalypse…” The summer movie “World War Z” proved thought-provoking for two Dominican student brothers from the Province of St. Joseph. Their reflections (“Zombie Apocalypse: Life Among the Ruins” by Br. Edmund McCullough, OP, and “Zombie Apocalypse: A Plague” by Br. Pier Giorgio Denger, OP) were published in Dominicana.
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The next Dominican Life | USA update will be published on Wednesday, August 14. Deadline for submission of articles/photos is Friday, August 9.
General Chapter of the Order of Preachers The General Chapter of the Order of Preachers opened July 22 with Mass concelebrated by Fr. Bruno Cadore, OP, master of the order, and his predecessors Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, and Fr. Carlos Aspiroz Costa, OP. More than 100 Dominican friars from around the world are participating in the chapter, which is being held in Trogir, Croatia. Latest news from Chicago parish Read about the good work being done at St. Pius V parish in their summer newsletter. The parish is led by pastor Brendan Curran, OP; and associate pastors Charles Dahm, OP, and Matthias Mueller, OP. Caldwell College receives WWII writings Maxine Giannini, widow of Ugo Giannini, a former Caldwell College art professor, recently donated two drawings and a book to the college’s Jennings Library. Sister Gerardine Mueller, OP, professor emerita and founder of the college’s art department, was quoted in an article about the donation in the local newspaper. Caldwell College was founded by the Caldwell Dominican Sisters. Nuns in the News The Dominican nuns of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus in Lufkin, Texas, were featured in a recent article (“The Power of Prayer”) in The Daily Progress (Jacksonville, Texas).
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