Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas holds a special secret beneath her folded hands. The black sash tied about her waist is an Aztec custom indicating that she is with child… and not just any child but the Child. Standing protectively over the entire community at prayer, the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in our Motherhouse Chapel reminds us daily of our community’s deeply pro-life heart.

Every religious woman gives her life away for the love of Him who gave His life for her and by virtue of her self-offering proclaims the immeasurable dignity of the human person, redeemed by Christ and called to communion with God. Wrapped within the mystery of our name, Mother of the Eucharist, witnessing to the Gospel of Life is an integral part our identity.

In a world permeated by the culture of death, the Dominican Sisters of Mary seek to restore the dignity of the human person and work to build up a culture of life through how we live, what we teach, in participating in the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. and pro-life events in other parts of the country, supporting and encouraging families and most especially through our daily fidelity to the consecrated life and our prayers.

We look to our Heavenly Mother and patroness, Mother of the Eucharist for a perfect model of spiritual motherhood and openness to life. Under Mary’s tutelage and in her school of love, each Sister discovers the secret for extending her heart to all humanity in a universal all-embracing love. “The one who accepted Life in the name of all and for the sake of all was Mary, the Virgin Mother; She is thus most clearly and personally associated with the Gospel of life…” For this reason, Mary “like the Church of which she is the type, is a mother of all who are reborn to life. She is in fact the Mother of Life by which everyone lives, and when she brought it forth from herself she in some way brought to rebirth all those who were to live by that life. As the Church contemplates Mary’s Motherhood, she discovers the meaning of her own Motherhood and the way in which she is called to express it.” (Evangelium Vitae)