In 1983, five women religious –one of whom is a Dominican Sister of Hope– decided to respond to the need they saw on the streets of Newburgh, New York. While many residents chose to leave due to a weakening economy and increased poverty, these women rented...
Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Headley thinks fast and talks faster. “I’m only seventy-five years old,” she says. “I’m young!” She’s also spry. After fifty-five years in hospice ministry, she retired and took on a number of volunteer jobs: she serves at Part of the...
Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Alice Hannan’s vocation began when she was around ten years old. Her father had died, she was ill, her mother was soon to be remarried, and the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh were helpful with all of it. They visited her in the hospital....
Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. Our palms from last Sunday are now behind us, a foreshadowing of the whisper we will hear once again next year, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” However, during Holy Week, the message of ashes is more pertinent...
Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Alice Hannan was volunteering at a homeless shelter for runaways under twenty-one-years-old when she first met Desda. The year was 1982; Sister had a daily routine of walking to her home convent from the Times Square shelter every...
