This week we celebrate the Feasts of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of Sorrows. It is a good time to look at how Our Lady carried her crosses.  

With expectant joy, six young women processed into the chapel on August 22nd wearing crisp new blue vests and skirts as the Sisters sang the traditional Dominican hymn “O Lumen Ecclesiae” (O Light of the Church). One by one, Mother Amata Veritas called them forward by name to receive a Dominican cross necklace from Sister Mary Michael, Sister John Dominic or Sister Elizabeth Ann.

By the great mercy of God, six Sisters of Mary joyfully committed themselves to Christ for all their lives through the Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. These radiant, faith-filled brides, sustained by grace, reflect God’s relentless and loving fidelity bestowed upon His Church. What joy He gives us through them!

Independence Day is a time to recall not only the tremendous blessings we enjoy as a nation but also that those blessings come from God Himself.