This week we celebrate the Feasts of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of Sorrows. It is a good time to look at how Our Lady carried her crosses.  

With expectant joy, six young women processed into the chapel on August 22nd wearing crisp new blue vests and skirts as the Sisters sang the traditional Dominican hymn “O Lumen Ecclesiae” (O Light of the Church). One by one, Mother Amata Veritas called them forward by name to receive a Dominican cross necklace from Sister Mary Michael, Sister John Dominic or Sister Elizabeth Ann.

Independence Day is a time to recall not only the tremendous blessings we enjoy as a nation but also that those blessings come from God Himself.

The very first day Jesus proclaimed, “This bread is My flesh which I will give for the life of the world” (Jn 6:51), many disciples went away grumbling, “this is a hard saying. Who can accept it?”

Twenty-five years ago, our four foundresses freely placed their entire earthly security on the line to follow the call of the Holy Spirit to start a new foundation–the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.

The Holy Spirit descended, that first Pentecost, “like the blowing of a violent wind” (Acts 2:2) upon Mary and the Apostles...

Jesus allowed Himself to be betrayed, scourged, mocked, crowned with thorns, crucified, and pierced with a spear. He held nothing back, but surrendered all for us, even life itself.

Ash Wednesday is this week. In the busyness of life, we can be tempted to dismiss Lent as unimportant...

Human life, created by God to be a composite of body and soul, is spectacularly wonderful – a thing only God can accomplish.