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Dominican Institute for the Arts Winter 2019 Newsletter
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Monthly Archives: December 2018
Dominican Young Adults: November Youth Preaching Weekend
Submitted by Gina Fleming, OP
Sixteen students from St. Agnes Academic HS, College Point; and Good Shepherd Parish Youth Group in Holbrook came to St. John the Baptist HS retreat Center to begin a weekend of prayer, study, and the forming of community. These students were the latest group who attended one of our youth preaching workshops. They learned how to bring to life their baptismal call to “preach the Good News” by using the gifts and talents that have been given to them by our loving God.
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Dominican Sisters of Adrian: ‘Parishioners Meet to Bridge the Gap Between Black and White, City and Suburb’
November 13, 2018, Detroit, Michigan – In a nation too often fraught with division and violence, parishioners from two Detroit parishes and one suburban parish got together on Sunday, November 4, to share “sacred conversations” and begin the process of unity between African-American and Caucasian Catholics, city and suburban parishes.
In a “Reverse Mass Mob,” more than 50 parishioners of Detroit parishes St. Suzanne-Our Lady Gate of Heaven and Christ the King took a bus to St. Mary of the Hills Parish in the suburb of Rochester Hills, Michigan, to attend Mass and begin “sacred conversations” about their personal experience of race and racism.
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Dominican Sisters of Peace Associate Receives Martin de Porres Award
New Orleans, LA – Dr. Cynthia Thomas, an Associate of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and President of St. Mary’s Dominican High School, a sponsored school of the Congregation, was awarded the 2018 St. Martin de Porres Award at the Southern Dominican Province Gala on November 8, 2018.
The Martin de Porres award recognizes individuals who are dedicated to the mission of the Dominican Order and who emulate St. Martin’s spirit of compassion, mercy and the search for truth.
Thomas was introduced to the Dominican life at a young age. Growing up in Independence, Louisiana, she worshipped at a parish church staffed by the Dominican Friars and was taught by St. Mary Dominican Sisters at Mater Dolorosa Elementary.
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St. Catherine of Siena Center at Dominican University: ‘The Recurring Call of Advent to Become What We Pray’
The St. Catherine of Siena Center at Dominican University invites you too:
“The Recurring Call of Advent to Become What We Pray”
Fr. James Marchionda, OP
Thursday, December 13, 7 pm. $10
This inspiring presentation of scripture, song, preaching and conversation will highlight Advent’s invitation to a deeper participation in God’s dream for the world. We are not called to a simplistic passive waiting; we are called to action throughout these sacred days – an action that finds us becoming what we pray. Fr. Marchionda is the Prior Provincial of the Dominican Friars of the Central Province of the USA.
Register here: http://events.dom.edu/
