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Photo of the Week: Three Dominican Sisters of Sparkill Make First Vows
The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill had three new Sisters recently make their First Vows in their community in Pakistan. Read article
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McGreal 10th Anniversary Series: “Team McGreal” Part 2
“For to be Dominican means to say WE…To be Dominican means to be a Family…!” (Mary Nona McGreal, OP, Dominicans at Home in a Young Nation: 1786-1865, 4)
Team McGreal is a vibrant Dominican family! This article highlights our current volunteers. You can learn about the staff on our Facebook page – thanks to Jenny Begich! For the past eight years, Jenny volunteers at the McGreal Center during her lunch break! She manages our Facebook page and created the “Humans of the McGreal” post series. Jenny earned a Masters in Library Information Science, and serves as an operational specialist in Dominican University’s Enrollment Department. She is an expert in data management and a wizard at technology. Why does Jenny spend that precious lunch working in the McGreal Center? Her Facebook entry explains: “. . . it seems that as soon as you walk into the McGreal Center all of the cares and stresses of the world disappear. And of course the parties!”
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Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids: ‘March for Our Lives’
Grassroots, non-partisan, student-led organizations planned rallies and marches to protest gun violence in schools on March 24, 2018. Reports indicated that there were March For Our Lives gatherings in Washington DC and 800+ sibling marches across the globe.
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Dominican Sisters of Houston: March for our Lives and Pax Christi Texas Conference
Saturday, March 24, students from Parkland, Florida and throughout the country gathered in Washington DC and other cities across the U.S. calling on Congress to enact stricter guns laws. Dominican Sisters of Houston and Houston Dominican Family members joined thousands of students and adults marching in downtown Houston.
The sisters also hosted the annual Pax Christi Texas Conference on March 24. Prior to the Conference Dominican Sisters, members of Pax Christi and friends gathered for 17 minutes of silence at the entrance to the Dominican Motherhouse to be in solidarity with the students and their supporters.
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Photo of the Week: ‘Gathering of Dominican Sisters at the UN CSW62’
“For the past six years, the Dominican Sisters International has been sending sisters to participate in the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women. This commission invites the Thinkers-Shakers-and-Doers to work together and strengthen their relationship to make our society a better place for all, especially for both women and girls. The theme for this year is ‘Empowering Rural Women and Girls.’”
Read UN Update by Jareen Aquino, MM
