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“The Dominican Story is only kept alive by live Dominicans,” words from Dominican scholar, Edward Schillebeeckx that can be heard echoing from Adrian, Michigan, the gathering site for the 18th Annual Dominican High Schools Preaching Conference. Students from 23 high schools, including two from Australia, gathered at Siena Heights University, June 24-29, 2016, to discover and deepen the preacher within.
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Iraq Coordinating Committee
The Iraq Coordinating Committee has prepared a novena to remember our Dominican Family that fled for their lives when Daesch (ISIS) swept across the Nineveh Plain with violence. The novena begins on July 29 and ends on August 6, commemorating the day when our sisters and brothers left for Erbil in the Kurdish area. Brian Pierce, OP, has had the novena translated, and is distributing it to all of the Dominican Nuns’ Convents and the laity around the world. Dominican Sisters International (DSI) is also receiving this timely novena. Read Novena
July 8, 2016, Adrian, Michigan – The new Prioress and General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters formally took office on July 2, 2016 during a special Liturgy, the Celebration of Leadership. The Congregation’s new leadership team is composed of Sister Patricia Siemen, OP, Prioress of the Congregation; Sister Frances Nadolny, OP, Administrator and General Councilor; Sister Mary Margaret Pachucki, OP, Vicaress and General Councilor; and Sister Patricia Harvat, OP, and Sister Elise D. García, OP, General Councilors. Elected during the Congregation’s General Chapter in February 2016, they will hold office through June 2022.
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SINSINAWA, Wis.—Sister Joeann Daley, OP, will be featured in “The Evolution of the Artistic Imagination” at Sinsinawa Art Gallery, Sinsinawa, Aug. 4–Sept. 28. An opening reception will be held 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, beginning with an artist talk.
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We had a very beautiful end of camp yesterday, June 29, as the children of the camp performed by singing and dancing. The theme of the camp was Zoology and the campers wore elephant ears, lion’s
hair, zebra ornaments and more to make the performance colorful and happy and the camp a joyful experience. Their teacher is a young woman who is quite the choreographer and to her credit, the children respect and follow her instructions beautifully.
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