Dominican Sisters of Hope Will Offer ‘Women Bearing Gifts Weekend Retreat at Mariandale’
The “Women Bearing Gifts” weekend retreat at Mariandale will be held Friday, April 29 to Sunday, May 1, 2016. The retreat allows “women to once again affirm and celebrate their own giftedness.”
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Dominican Sisters of Springfield become New Site for Racism Workshops
A recent article on the topic of racism, reported by Fox Illinois, touches on the impact that racism workshops have created in Springfield, Illinois. The workshops are being hosted inside the Dominican Sisters of Springfield convent.
“Their workshops target community leaders, business owners, school officials, and other major community outlets who may be in a position, whether they know it or not, that perpetuate systemic racism. The hope is that with the accurate exposure to the issue – they may be able to correct it if they find themselves being involved in it.”
Maryknoll Mission Institute Program, ‘Living Into Death – Dying into Life’
May 22-27, 2016
Maryknoll Mission Institute, Maryknoll, New York 10545-0311
This program deals with what was once called the “Last Things” (in Latin: De Novissimis), that is, the realities occurring at the end of life, namely, death and dying, and those occurring in the afterlife, namely, judgment, purgatory, hell, heaven, the resurrection, and the consummation of the world. In theology, the treatment of these Last Things is called “eschatology”—a term derived from the Greek: eschata and logos, meaning discourse on the last things. There is a basic methodological question about whether and how we know these last realities, and how to talk about them. Obviously, we do know something about dying as a physical act, thanks to modern medicine. Of this we can therefore speak with empirical certainty. But of the meaning of death and above all, of what occurs after death, we do not have factual information. As a consequence, our language about them cannot be that of a scientific report but borders on poetry, and what we say about them is liable to the charge of projection and mythmaking.
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Obituary – Sister Cecile Therese Burton, was a Maryknoll Missioner for 70 Years
Maryknoll, NY – Sister Cecile Therese Burton, an educator and social worker in Hawaii died after a long illness on February 17, 2016 at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, NY. She was 91 years old.
Frances Eloise was born in Washington, D.C., September 23, 1924 to Cecile R. Burton and Frank E. Burton. She had one brother, Barry and one sister, Joyce. Her brother, sister and both parents have predeceased her.
The family moved to Philadelphia and she graduated from Little Flower Catholic High School, PA in 1942 and Immaculata College, Immaculata, PA in 1945 with a B.A. major in French and a Teacher’s Certificate.
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