We’re already praying about the upcoming election. Now, the Leadership Council of our friends, the Adrian Dominican Sisters, invites all people of good will to join them in eight minutes of silent, contemplative prayer each Tuesday from September 20, 2016,...
“It’s a beautiful tomato,” Josh Arcaro coos just outside of the kitchen at Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center. “I would cut this up into sixths or eighths, leave it raw, drizzle it with extra-virgin olive oil.” Mr. Arcaro is the...
The Garden at Mariandale was put to bed for the winter. As I stand before the seventeen raised beds, now seeded with winter rye to bring fresh nourishment for the spring, I am caught in a kind of reverie. I recall the fresh energy of new beginnings from former spring...
Earth Day is every day, yet it takes on a new and deeper meaning here at Mariandale this year. This Retreat and Conference Center, and those of us who live, work and visit here, recently welcomed two hives of honeybees. Concerned as we Dominican Sisters of Hope are...
Our school just received a wonderful prize,” wrote Dominican Sister of Hope John Christian McCabe, OP, in a letter to the Dominican Sisters earlier this week. Sister John Christian is the principal at La Academia San José in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, where she has served...
