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Photo of the Week: 2021 Virtual Nun Run/Walk 5K |
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The 2021 Virtual Nun Run/Walk 5K looked much different from past events but was undoubtedly just as memorable. From May 8th through May 16th, runners and walkers throughout the country participated in the Nun Run/Walk from their hometowns. Several Sisters of Saint Dominic of Blauvelt participated, most notably, Sr. Terry Rickard, OP, placed 7th overall in the race, with a time of 33:54.
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Learning Life Lessons at Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes Convent on our San Rafael campus is home to senior sisters in need of assistance. Under the direction of the administrator Sr. Mary Kieffer, a caring and skilled staff tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the sisters. The time throughout the pandemic was particularly challenging for this vulnerable group, but now a spirit of hope and gratitude permeates. In addition, an intergenerational collaborative project with neighboring university students is now possible and finally underway.
The highly regarded nursing program at Dominican University of California (DUC), founded as Dominican College by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael more than 130 years ago, offers a second-year course, Geriatric Foundations, which aims to explore the needs of an aging population, and nearby Lourdes Convent provides an excellent clinical training ground with resident sisters and a helpful skilled staff all willing to oblige these young scholars with practical opportunities.
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Marian Catholic High School Holds First-Ever Fine Arts Signing Day
Marian Catholic High School celebrated five seniors in the Fine Arts Department during the school’s first-ever Fine Arts Signing Day on Tuesday, May 11. These students will be continuing their careers in band at the collegiate level. Regarded as one of the top band programs in the country, the Marian Catholic High School Band is a seven-time Bands of America Grand National Champion and is undefeated in Class A marching competition in Illinois since 1980. The five Fine Arts signees are part of a long legacy of success for the Marian Catholic Band program.
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Sister Mary Paul McCaughey Publishes Prayers for Principals
Springfield Dominican Sister Mary Paul McCaughey was the principal of two Catholic high schools and now is full-time faculty at DePaul University, where she teaches master’s and doctoral students and coordinates the graduate studies program for Catholic Educational Leadership in the College of Education. So, when she was invited by Kathy Mears, the Interim President of the National Catholic Educational Association to write a book of prayers to encourage Catholic school principals, she said yes, admitting, “It isn’t anything I ever, ever thought I’d be doing in a million years.”
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Catholic Charities Video Describes Ministry of Sisters at Border
Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) recently released a moving video about Catholic Sisters from about 100 U.S. Congregations who supported the initiative or sent Sisters to serve immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Sisters spoke of their volunteer experience of helping immigrant families and individuals who came to the United States to escape violence or poverty.
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Catholic Sisters Help Survivors Thrive
Human trafficking is a $150 billion business. As a member of Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, the Dominican Sisters of Springfield are part of a global network working to end this dehumanizing criminal enterprise. In a webinar you will hear from Sister Kathlyn Mulcahy, a Springfield Dominican Sister and director of Bethany House, a Chicago shelter for young women and children who are in the process of seeking asylum. Many of them are survivors of trafficking. You will also hear the inspiring stories of two women who survived trafficking and are now thriving and helping others to do the same.
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Letters: Pope Francis and Brother Gerard
On May 24th, the Order of Preachers observes the Memorial of the Translation of St. Dominic. This date commemorates the date in 1233 when, twelve years after the death of Dominic in 1221, his remains were moved from their original, modest burial place behind an altar of the church of San Nicolo in Bologna, Italy, to a large marble tomb in a more prominent place in the church.
On this Memorial in 2021, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the Master of the Order, Brother Gerard Timoner, in honor of the 800th Anniversary of the Death of Dominic. Brother Gerard wrote a letter in response.
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DSC Futuring Leadership Team Set to Start July 1
For quite some time, members of the Dominican Sisters Conference (DSC) have desired to find a common way to embrace the future of Dominican Life and Mission in the US. Through the work of the OP Sisterhood Futuring Task Force, that pathway has been made more clear and more real. The work of the Task Force has led to the creation of a new, younger cohort of leaders who are being asked to serve as a catalyst for conversation and engagement about the future with sisters under 70 across congregational boundaries. On July 1, 2021, the DSC Futuring Leadership Team will begin a three-year term.
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800th Jubilee Reflection
The Dominican Family is celebrating the 800th anniversary of the death of Our Holy Father St. Dominic during a jubilee year that began on the 6th of January 2021 through the 6th of January 2022.
We, the Dominican Sisters Conference/DomLife, are joining with OPWest Dominican Congregations in celebration by offering you monthly reflections on the Theme "At Table with St. Dominic," which is inspired by the Mascarella table, the table on which the first portrait of St. Dominic was painted shortly after his canonization. Fr. Gerard Francisco P. Timoner, OP, shared, “We will celebrate St. Dominic not as a saint alone on a pedestal, but a saint enjoying table fellowship with his brothers, gathered by the same vocation to preach God’s Word and sharing God’s gift of food and drink." This motnh's reflection is by Sister Abby Newton, a Dominican Sister of San Rafael.
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Sister Spotlight: Sister Donna Maria Moses, Suited to Serve
From an early age, Sister Donna Maria Moses has felt called and responded with service to God, country, community, congregation. After graduating Harvard University, Donna Maria chose a teaching career, but limited job opportunities convinced her to leave New Hampshire. Relocating to California, she taught high school and converted to the Catholic faith. To supplement income and respond to the need for more women in the services she was commissioned a Naval Officer and assigned to duty in Oakland. While completing a Doctorate in Education at the University of San Francisco, she encountered the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. |
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Dominican Family Spotlight:
Sharon Hendee, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose School of Music
Sharon Hendee has taught violin and viola at the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose’s School of Music for 23 years and was recently named the head of the School of Music. Hendee replaces Sister Eva Beehner who served as the school’s leader for 21 years. “I am so excited to lead such an amazing group of music teachers who are very caring and committed to developing students' musicianship as well as the whole child.”
“Our future is strong, and I am looking forward to working with others in continuing the School of Music’s excellence for many more generations.”
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From The UN
In this UN Update, we review the last three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in preparation for the High-Level Political Forum. These are goals: 12: sustainable consumption and production; 16: promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies and 17: the revitalization of global partnerships for sustainable development. |
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Below are breif descriptions for upcoming events and retreats. For more information on all events, click here. |
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New Organist joins Summer Organ Concert series at Mound
Wednesday, June 30
Sinsinawa Mound Center is excited to announce Andrew Kreigh is playing his first concert of the Summer Organ Concert series. Kreigh serves as the director of music and liturgy at Saint Bernard Catholic Church, Madison, WI, his hometown.
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Black Plays July Organ Concert
Wednesday, July 7
Karen Black of Waverly, IA, will be the featured organist for the Summer Organ Concert at Sinsinawa Mound Center on July 7. Black is the Rudi Inselmann endowed professor of organ at Wartburg College, Waverly, where she teaches organ and church music, music theory, and aural skills and serves as organist for weekday chapel and Sunday worship services.
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Workshop Explores Parables of Jesus
Tuesday, July 6
Jesus was a master teacher and shared with his listeners many stories of God’s reign. Sister Mary Ellen Green, OP, will explore a few of these parables and how they relate to our lives today.
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