Legacy
Many of our sisters are currently retired and working in part-time ministries. However, we have a long history of teaching, nursing, and ministering throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. These stories catalogue our history of hope and our legacy of service —be sure to let us know if you spot a sister who served you in the past!
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our Legacy
COVID-19 Year in Review Exhibit Has Launched
The Dominican Sisters of Hope archives department has launched a virtual exhibit that details the pandemic, as it relates to the Hope community and the world at large.
Hope’s Disguises
It strikes me now that perhaps Hope itself is the big memory. Far more than mere optimism, Hope is a theological virtue infused in us at Baptism. This gift of Hope not only implants in us a desire for union with our God as our ultimate happiness, but also assures us that we need only place our trust in Christ’s promises.
The Irony of Hope
It strikes me now that perhaps Hope itself is the big memory. Far more than mere optimism, Hope is a theological virtue infused in us at Baptism. This gift of Hope not only implants in us a desire for union with our God as our ultimate happiness, but also assures us that we need only place our trust in Christ’s promises.
Hope (a Laundry of the Soul)
No focus on the plans of a newly elected president can obviate the complicated reality of who we are: who we have become, and who we now know ourselves to be.
Hope in Darkness
No focus on the plans of a newly elected president can obviate the complicated reality of who we are: who we have become, and who we now know ourselves to be.
Incarnation: 2020
How do we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Incarnation in 2020?
Hope in the Breach – All that Could and Should Be
I now recognize that my friend’s insight, as well as my defensive reaction, opened up a greater consciousness of how slippery a slope it is to get stuck in self and then to be seduced by a flawed sense of righteousness.
Being Hope: an Unfinished Symphony
Remember who you are. Perhaps it was for this very moment that you were created. Remember too that we are not alone on this journey. We are accompanied by the God of Promise.
In Memoriam: Sister Joan Coffey, OP
Sister Jo-Ann Iannotti eulogizes Sister Joan Coffey, OP (Sister James Cecilia) who died May 11, 2020.
In memoriam for Sister Mary Ella Morrison, OP (aka Target)
Sister Mary Ella Morrison, OP (Sister Margaret Therese) of the Dominican Sisters of Hope died peacefully on September 1, 2020.
