Photo of the Week: Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt – 16th Annual Hearts Afire Gala

“The Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt hosted their 16th Annual Hearts Afire Gala at the View on the Hudson in Piermont. During the Gala, Robert S. Manzella and the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine were awarded the Mother Mary Ann Sammon Award for Compassion & Service. Pictured below is Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt President, Sr. Catherine Howard, OP with honoree Robert S. Manzella.”

April 20, 2016

Weber Retreat and Conference Center: “Sacred Senses, Sacred Spaces: Nurturing our Sensitivity to Earth”

Weber Retreat and Conference Center, Adrian, Michigan, is offering “Sacred Senses, Sacred Spaces: Nurturing our Sensitivity to Earth,” a day of reflection in “recognizing the contemplative, sacramental dimensions embedded within creation: that of the soil, air, water, fire, and natural beings that support a sacred site.” The retreat is scheduled for Saturday, June 4, from 9:30-3:30 p.m. For more information or to register, please click here.

April 19, 2016

Sinsinawa Mound Event to Explore Fracking

SINSINAWA, Wis.—Sinsinawa Mound is offering an evening focused on exploring the well-known and little-known complexities of hydraulic fracturing through firsthand experience, investigative journalism, storytelling and verse. Drawing from his book, “Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America,” Editor Taylor Brorby will be present to read excerpts and lead discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 10. Many of our nation’s best environmental minds are gathered together in this book and bear witness to fracking in the United States. Copies of “Fracture” are available at Sinsinawa Book and Gift Gallery and will be available for purchase at this free event.

For more information, contact Eric Anglada, coordinator, ecological programming at Sinsinawa Mound, ateric.anglada@gmail.com or 563-845-0780 or visit our website at www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the Motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque.

April 19, 2016

‘Three Sisters Profess Vows with Adrian Dominican Sisters’

April 14, 2016, Adrian, Michigan – The Adrian Dominican Sisters continued the joy of the Easter Season in April with the Profession of Vows of three Sisters.

Sisters Salvacion (Salve) B. Valenzuela, OP, left, and Alma D. Zapanta, OP, professed their final vows on April 3, 2016.

Sisters Salvacion (Salve) B. Valenzeula, OP, and Alma D. Zapanta, OP, professed their final (perpetual) vows on April 3 during a special liturgy at the chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel Seminary, on the same grounds as their Chapter house in San Fernando, Pampanga, the Philippines. The Most Reverend Paciano B. Aniceto, DD, Archbishop-Emeritus of San Fernando, presided.
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April 18, 2016

‘Sinsinawa Dominicans Hold General Chapter, Elect Leadership’

With joy and gratitude, the Sinsinawa Dominicans announce our newly elected prioress and council as we set out anew together! From left: Sisters Colleen Settles, Toni Harris (prioress), Elizabeth Pawlicki, Patricia Beckman, Pamela Mitchell (vicaress) and Angelo Collins.

SINSINAWA, Wis.—The Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation held their 24^th General Chapter at their motherhouse April 2-9, 2016. They set direction for 2016-2021 and elected new leadership, working under the theme “Setting Out Anew Together.”
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