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The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Sparkill Congregation’s mission in Pakistan. “The Pakistan mission has brought untold riches to the Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary.” Read article
The Clarion Herald recently published an article featuring Sister Dominic Savio Estorge, OP, “whose tenure at St. Mary’s Dominican High School in New Orleans spans 55 years, and counting. Read article
On Sunday, August 5, 2018, the Sisters of Saint Dominic of Blauvelt, New York, along with “Associates, families, and friends came together in Blauvelt to [celebrate the Feast of Saint Dominic and] witness the Associate First Commitment of Maureen O’Dwyer Zeiss, as well as the Commitment Renewals of Darlyne Lawson and Joan Crinnian.” Read article
“[A] delegation of U.S. Dominicans will travel to Iraq in late September, almost a year after having had postponed their trip because of instability in Iraqi Kurdistan.” Please click here to read more about the delegation and “about an opportunity for you to observe the fourth anniversary of the displacement of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities at the time of the ISIS invasion of Iraq.”
In seeking ways to respond to the crisis of children being separated from their parents at the southern border, San Rafael Dominican sister and artist, Joanne Cullimore, OP painted an image and added a prayer in Spanish. It is a modern day retablo, an artistic expression she is familiar with from many years of painting trips she took to Mexico, New Mexico and other parts of the southwestern U.S.
The San Rafael Dominicans have made it into a prayer card and are inviting prayers for the children and their parents.
Please click here for the prayer card.
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