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...
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 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...