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January 26, 2026, Adrian, Michigan – Spend time in quiet reflection in the early days of Holy Week, leading up to the sacred Triduum of Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday, and the Holy Saturday Vigil of Easter Sunday – at the annual Holy Week Retreat offered at Weber Retreat and Conference Center. 

The retreat, facilitated by Father John Kaspar, OSFS, is from 6:30 p.m. ET Sunday, March 29, 2026, through 11:00 a.m. ET Thursday, April 2, 2026. 

Father John is a preacher, pastor, and member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

The cost is $125, including lunches, for commuters; and $225 per person double occupancy and $325 single occupancy, including all meals. 

Registration is required. Visit www.webercenter.org and click on “programs,” call 517-266-4000, or email [email protected]. Limited scholarships are available.

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. On East Siena Heights Drive, turn into the driveway between Adrian Rea Literacy Center and the solar panel-covered carport. Follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.
 

January 23, 2026, Adrian, Michigan – In a letter sent to every U.S. Senator and Representative, leaders of the Adrian Dominican Sisters expressed deep concern over “the direction we are taking as a nation. It runs contrary to the core values we hold as women of faith and uphold as citizens of our democracy.”

The Sisters wrote that they are “deeply troubled by the abdication of checks and balances we are witnessing in Washington that is resulting in unchecked acts of cruelty, violence and oppression against our people at home and threatening friends and world and economic order abroad.” They called on Members of Congress to be “true to your oath of office and to the people you were elected to serve.”

The leaders of the Congregation further added, “As members of the Dominican Order of Preachers whose motto is veritas, truth, we are deeply troubled by the pervasive mendacity in our national discourse. It is dangerous and demoralizing.” They called on Members “to help restore the virtue of truth-telling in governance.”

“We pray,” they added, “that you will take whatever steps you can to end the daily blurring of fact and fiction in our nation’s capital and to help restore the virtue of seeking and speaking truth, so essential to living and governing with integrity – and love.”

Read the entire January 20, 2026, letter.

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Members of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Leadership Council are: Sisters Elise D. García, OP, Prioress; Mary Margaret Albert, OP, and Margaret Coyne, OP, Chapter Prioresses; Sara Fairbanks, OP, and Durstyne Farnan, OP, Mission Prioresses; Patricia Leonard, OP, Chapter Prioress; Frances Nadolny, OP, Lorraine Réaume, OP, and Corinne Sanders, OP, General Councilors; and Mary Soher, OP, Mission Prioress.