Advent Week Three: Common Life

Advent Week Three: Common Life

Common life is about the willingness to share our lives with one another. God is not found in isolation. The journey we are on is not meant to be walked alone. For Dominicans, the communal dimension of our religious life challenges to us to be of “one mind and one...
4 Tips for Dealing with Roommate Stress from Sister Catherine Walsh

4 Tips for Dealing with Roommate Stress from Sister Catherine Walsh

Flickr: Michael J Anyone who’s lived with a roommate knows that communal living can be tough. It’s no different for vowed religious. However, some groups manage to make community work and even find it fruitful: one group of Dominican Sisters of Hope has...

The Guzman Community on Living Together for Forty Years

  Bonus Audio: Listen in on an excerpt from an afternoon spent with the Guzman Community, or read the full interview below: What has been the most joyful part of being a sister? Sister Barbara Hamilton: Should this be holy? No, it doesn’t have to be holy! Sister...