Fr. Mazzuchelli Memorial Mass is Aug. 23

The annual Father Samuel Mazzuchelli Memorial Mass and dinner will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at St. Patrick Church in Benton, Wisconsin. Father Mazzuchelli is known in Iowa and Wisconsin for establishing at least 35 parish communities, designing and building at least 24 churches, and founding the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters. He was declared “Venerable” by Pope John Paul II, the first step to sainthood. The day’s events also include a tour of St. Augustine Church in New Diggings, Wisconsin, and Father Mazzuchelli’s home and grave site in Benton. The public is invited. For more information, call 608-965-4517.

July 29, 2015

Religious life from a volunteer perspective

Global Sisters Report

Dominican Volunteer Mary Clare Mazzocchi recently finished her one-year commission at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco. The school is sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. Her final article in GSR’s “Notes from the Field” summer blog project, she writes about her experience living with the sisters at Immaculate Conception Priory. Read article

July 29, 2015

Let us play: Reflections on holiness and humor

Global Sisters Report

Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Christin Tomy appreciates and embraces the lighter side of religious life. She writes about the “saving grace” of levity in a July 17 article in Global Sisters Report. Read article

July 29, 2015

Springfield, Grand Rapids sisters celebrate anniversaries

Jubilee 2015

Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently celebrated anniversaries of profession as vowed women religious. Stories and photos of this year’s Jubliarians are posted on the congregations’ web sites. Grand Rapids Jubilarians | Springfield Jubilarians

July 29, 2015

Adrian Dominicans – Sister Luchy becomes U.S. citizen

Less than a week after the United States celebrated its 239th birthday on the Fourth of July, Sister Nery “Luchy” Sori, OP, became one of its newest citizens. Sister Luchy was one of 89 people to take the Oath of Allegiance in a July 9 Naturalization Ceremony in the Federal District Court in Detroit, Michigan. She had passed her citizenship test on July 6. Sister Luchy applied for citizenship in November 2014 after moving to Adrian, Michigan from New Orleans, where she had been engaged in Hispanic ministry. She is a native of the Dominican Republic. Read more