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Adrian Dominicans In the NewsAquinas Center Welcomes New Board Members The Aquinas Center of Theology announced six new board members at an Oct. 21 board meeting on the Emory University campus. They are Patricia Allgood, chair at Vistage in Atlanta; David Blumenthal, professor of Judaic studies at Emory University; Stephen Crim, chief executive officer of American Safety Insurance; Randy Hain, managing partner of Bell Oaks; Father T.J. Meehan, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta; and Sister Mary Priniski, chapter prioress of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Adrian Dominican sisters. |
High on (religious) Life National Catholic Reporter
Sr. Donna Markham, the prioress general of the Adrian Dominicans, presented a morning session at the religious formation conference: "Blessing and Hope: Creating a Vision for Religious Life in the 21st Century." She spoke of dreaming and quoted Don Helder Camera, "When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality." |
Adrian Dominican Sisters welcome newest associate, Maria McCadden T C Palm
Associates are men and women who share the Dominican charisms of study, service, prayer and community and wish to formally enter a relationship with the Adrian Dominican Sisters. After at least one year of prayer, study, discernment and mentoring, associates receive a pin, sign an acceptance agreement and become part of the Adrian Dominican family. |
Sister Anthonita Porta remembered The Daily Telegram
Sister Anthonia Porta died on Sept. 9, 2009 — one day after the anniversary of the date in 1949 that she joined the Adrian Dominican Sisters — of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. According to Sister Leonor Esnard, who co-directed the ADMTEI with Porta and is now its director, and to Porta’s nephew Paul D’Arcy, the institute’s administrator, even with the stunning suddenness of Porta’s death it was exactly the way a woman who didn’t want to retire or to become feeble with age would have wanted to go: quickly and while she was still able to be so active. |
Prioress visits Iraq to 'extend love and care' The Michigan Catholic
May 29, 2009 Detroit - A local religious sister is on a kind of peace relations mission, visiting sisters in Iraq to learn about their lives and express solidarity and support. |
Nuns' mission and clothes stay current The Detroit News
Janice Brown is divorced, has an MBA and a child. She is also a nun.
Brown, a 50-year-old Fraser resident, and director of the Dominican Literacy Center on the east side, is not what you'd expect to find in an order of nuns. |
Adrian Dominicans mark 125 years The Michigan Catholic
On May 20, 1884, six Dominican sisters arrived in the Lenawee County city to open the St. Joseph Hospital and Home for the Aged, a ministry to injured railroad workers. |
Dominican Sisters celebrate 125 years The Daily Telegram
The initials “O.P.” after an Adrian Dominican Sister’s name stand for the “Order of Preachers” of which they and all Dominican religious women and men are a part, and to Sister Donna Markham, prioress of the Adrian Dominicans, the fact that the congregation has been engaged in ministry throughout the world for 125 years now “says something about the passion of our sisters to preach the Gospel.” |
Sisters seek to serve community, world The Daily Telegram
As the Adrian Dominican Sisters prepare to celebrate their 125th anniversary next weekend, they do so having firmly made their mark in the local community and around the world. |
Dominican Sisters trace Adrian history to 1800s The Daily Telegram
In 1884, six members of the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh, N.Y., arrived in Adrian from New York to found St. Joseph Hospital, a facility intended for injured railroad workers but which later became a home for the aged. |
Weber Center donates 100 blankets to program The Daily Telegram
Keeping warm is a priority for Lenawee County residents in need this season, especially last weekend when temperatures stayed consistently below freezing. To help meet the growing demand for blankets and linens, the Weber Retreat and Conference Center, located on the Adrian Dominican Sisters campus in Adrian, donated 101 blankets, as well as sheets and pillowcases, to the Share the Wealth program last week. |
Sisters celebrate jubilees with prayer and fellowship Florida Catholic
With 110 years of ministry and service between them, Mercy Sisters Carol Harbeck and Barbara Murray celebrated their jubilees with women religious from across the diocese Oct. 4. Bishop John H. Ricard, SSJ, celebrated Mass with them at the Pastoral Center, followed by a luncheon. |
Torture survivor speaks The Daily Telegram
Argentinean torture survivor Patricia Isasa shared her experiences on Wednesday with an audience at the Adrian Dominican Sisters campus in Adrian. At 16, Patricia Isasa was abducted, “disappeared” and tortured for more than two years during the so-called “Dirty War” in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. |
Prepping for Fair Trade Month: New learning resources The Fair Trader
In the highlands of western Guatemala, for example, the Catholic church was instrumental in establishing the APECAFORM cooperative, which sells its coffee to some of the companies that participate in the CRS Fair Trade Coffee project. In addition, the Adrian Dominican Sisters were among the first investors to provide financial support for the pioneering work of Root Capital, which provides low-interest loans to Fair Trade producers around the world. |
Sister Mary-beth Beres, Teacher, Consultant, Dies The Georgia Bulletin
Sister Mary Elizabeth Beres, OP, 66, died on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at her residence in Clarkston. She was in the 47th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican congregation. |
Church Groups Espouse Fair Trade Business Week
One of Equal Exchange's first investments came as a $50,000 loan in 1994 from the Adrian Dominican Sisters. "We basically told them that this would be a high-risk investment, with low returns and no nonprofit tax write-offs," says Rink Dickinson, president and co-founder of Equal Exchange. "But the Adrian Dominican Sisters were attracted by the impact of our mission." |
Coal Plant Opponents Seek Action By Governor Midland Issues
Opponents of proposed coal-fired power plants in Michigan today began seeking petition signers to ask the governor to make carbon dioxide pollution a factor in state air quality permits. Clean Energy Now launched an online petition calling on Gov. Jennifer Granholm to order the state Department of Environmental Quality “to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired and other power generating plants as a greenhouse gas pollutant,” according to a news release from the group. |
Adrian Dominicans have strong presence in archdiocese The Michigan Catholic
Adrian Dominican Sisters have a major impact on the life of the Archdiocese of Detroit at many levels. With nearly 200 sisters in ministry in the archdiocese, they have one of the largest presences of any women's religious community serving the local Church. |
Athena Lenawee honors 3 The Daily Telegram
Athena Lenawee, an organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating women’s leadership, will honor its three 2008 award recipients on Tuesday. |
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