We’re finalizing preparations for our Saturday, July 21st Come and See Day and if you’ve ever had questions about how to know what to do to follow God’s will, you won’t want to miss it!
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On the day of their vows, and for our clerical brothers, their ordination, we continue our day of work and prayer, but with an eye on the clock as we pray and consider…”Ah, the Mass is beginning…right about now the liturgy of the Word will end…now, they are a priest…” And our hearts fill once again with joy and gratitude to God…
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Last week on Corpus Christi Sunday, we had the joy and privilege of celebrating our patronal feast with then Bishop-elect, now newly ordained Bishop Robert Christian, O.P., along with many of our Dominican brothers, sisters, laity, and friends and family.
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Our first Janua Caeli Retreat Day was on April 21st and our theme for was Fullness of Grace: How to Receive an Overabundance of God’s Gifts and we received an abundance of graces that day!
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Today is not only the feast of Saint Agnes of Montepulciano for Dominican nuns, it is also our Sister Mary of the Compassion’s 101st birthday!
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We learned in grade school that if you have three apples and you give one to your friend, you are left with two apples – you’re possession of created goods has decreased. Yet, with spiritual goods, this is not true! In fact, with God, the more you share, the more you have and if you try to keep spiritual goods for yourself, what little you have slips through your fingers.
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Alleluia! He is risen! Are you still overcome with Paschal joy? Nearly every day at Mass during the Easter season, if we pay close attention, we hear those words during the preface of the Eucharistic liturgy: “…overcome with Paschal joy…” So how come many of us feel more relief that Lent is over and a bit of anxiety over what to do about all the Easter candy in the house with shorts season right around the corner?
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Alleluia! He is risen! Though we may prepare for Easter with forty days of fasting, we celebrate our new life in Christ by His passion, death and resurrection with fifty days of feasting!
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The chapel is dark and hushed. We've processed inside from the Easter fire, holding our lighted candles. In darkness we stood for the Exultet, listened to excerpts from the Scriptures telling our salvation history, responding in psalms and prayers. Then the moment comes: the sounds of the Gloria swells, the bells peal, the lights come on and all the sisters cast off their black copes, revealing the full white of the Dominican habit.
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