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Advent Richard Woods, OP, professor of theology at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, offers a homily for the first Sunday in Advent. “The members of the Iraq Coordinating Committee, a team of Dominican sisters and friars committed to working and praying for peace and justice for the people of Iraq, selected the First Sunday of Advent as a special day of prayer to remember the 70 Christians and Muslims killed and 75 injured in the brutal assault by an Al-Qaeda group on Our Lady of Salvation Church during Mass on Sunday, Oct. 31. The following notes from a previous sermon still sum up my thinking about peace and violence at this time of year.” READ MORE Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt On Nov. 5, 1878, Sister Mary Ann Sammon, with six other Dominican nuns and nine young homeless immigrant girls arrived at their new home, St. Joseph Convent, in what was then known as Blauveltville, New York. One hundred and thirty two years later, Archbishop Timothy Dolan arrived, taking much of the same route as that first group of nuns and children, to celebrate the anniversary of the first mission of the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt. READ MORE Adrian Dominicans Sister Attracta Kelly, OP, prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, received the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for Advocacy during a special luncheon Nov. 20 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was recognized for 11 years of service as director and staff attorney of the Immigrants Legal Assistance Project of the North Carolina Center for Justice. READ MORE Lay Dominicans The Dominican community of Austin, Texas joyfully came together Nov. 8 to celebrate a bilingual Liturgy of the Eucharist, with nine chapter members making commitments as members of Dominican laity. Those making commitments expressed their appreciation of the four pillars of Dominican life in living their lay vocation, and how these pillars “interrelate beautifully, through the work of the Holy Spirit, to bring us and others closer to the love of Christ.” READ MORE Kaleidoscope The webcast with Sister Margaret Ormond, OP, speaking on “The Spirit of Dominican Leadership: Responding to the Call of Shared Responsibility” is coming up in a couple of weeks. This presentation will invite participants to explore and release our God-given gifts through the network of relationships that we know as the common good. READ MORE Aquinas Institute of Theology The 101-year old former Loretto Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, is being renovated as a residence for Dominican student brothers from the Central and Southern provinces who are studying at the Aquinas Institute of Theology. The new priory will be ready for occupancy in December 2011. READ STORY in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Faith and Film If you have followed the adventures of the Boy Wizard at all, you know by now that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book of J.K. Rowling’s extraordinarily successful series, has been made into two films. The bad news is that you will have to wait until next summer to see the final episode. The good news is that there is more of Harry and his friends, and more of the story, to enjoy. Review by Tom Condon, OP. READ MORE Photo of the Week |
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