How Can We Stop Being Divided? Start with Our Faith

How Can We Stop Being Divided? Start with Our Faith

Is the Reformation over? Or, has the Reformation achieved its end? That was the question posed to a group at the Mariandle Center this weekend. The large crowd gathered in honor of the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation to celebrate Catholic-Lutheran unity...
Catholic-Lutheran Unity Day Comes to Mariandale

Catholic-Lutheran Unity Day Comes to Mariandale

The Dominican Sisters of Hope and the Mariandale Center will host a celebration of Catholic-Lutheran Unity this Saturday, September 30, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. The event, which will take place at the Mariandale Center, honors the five-hundredth anniversary of the...
Now That Christmas Day Has Passed, Here’s a Question to Consider

Now That Christmas Day Has Passed, Here’s a Question to Consider

We all know that more than a million people escaped war and torture this year; they are refugees. (Please don’t tune me out just yet! Stay with me…) We are all also aware of some folks espousing the shutting down of our borders because people are fleeing war and...
A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters

On the morning of November 24th (Thanksgiving), Dominican Sister of Hope Jorene Cieciuch, OP was welcomed into eternal life.  As we give thanks for the gift of her years among us and the many ways she touched our lives so profoundly, we share this article from 2015...
Building Hope, One Home at a Time

Building Hope, One Home at a Time

Sisters Sharon and Donna Brunell build in New Orleans When Dominican Sister of Hope Sharon Yount, OP goes home, she visits her family in southern New Jersey. Her siblings, nieces, and nephews live a mere eight miles from the Salem home in which she and her siblings...