Hope is: Acknowledging the Gifts of Each Woman

Hope is: Acknowledging the Gifts of Each Woman

In the mid-1980s, Martha LaVallee decided to attend a Women Bearing Gifts retreat. Facilitated by the then Dominican Sisters of Newburgh (now Dominican Sisters of Hope), the weekend retreat was a chance for women to take a break from their daily lives and families to...
Sister Janet Selected to Give Presentation at Dominican Colloquium

Sister Janet Selected to Give Presentation at Dominican Colloquium

Today, Dominican Sister of Hope Janet Marchesani, OP is on her way to Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI for the 14th Biennial Colloquium of Dominican Colleges and Universities. Sister Janet was chosen to give a thirty-minute presentation called “The Preaching...

When God’s Plan is a Dance

When Dominican Sister of Hope Janet Marchesani was a young girl in southern New Jersey, she dreamed that she would grow up to be a ballerina. The idea wasn’t so far-fetched. Sister Janet had taken dance and piano lessons since she was ten years old. By the time she...