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Dominican Sisters of Mary

Mother of the Eucharist

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The Sisters Sang at the White House Christmas Tree Lighting!

As our four founding Sisters stepped out in faith 21 years ago to begin a new community of women religious, they envisioned spreading the witness of religious life across the country. Indeed, God has affirmed their act of faith by providing abundant opportunities to fulfill that vision.
In a spirit of thanksgiving, we were excited to bring “Christ to the Capitol” as our Sisters sang selections from our latest CD, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, at the White House for the 96th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on November 28!
The Christmas Tree Lighting was broadcasted on Ovation and Reelz, but you can view this special program by clicking here.
  

Our New Saints & A Special Anniversary

On  Sunday, October 14th, 2018, Pope Paul VI was canonized in Rome, along with Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, who was martyred while saying Mass. Two of our foundresses were present in St. Peter’s square for this historic event.

Pope Paul VI is perhaps best known for his courage in affirming the Church’s traditional teaching against the use of artificial birth control in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), which was promulgated fifty years ago. Like Archbishop Romero, Pope Paul was also a tireless promoter of social justice and world peace. These two facets of Pope Paul VI’s pontificate are not opposed in any way; they are simply two ways of affirming the dignity of all human life.

In God’s plan, every human person is conceived in love and welcomed by caring parents into an intimate communion of persons–a family who accepts him as he is and learns to love and be loved. How beautiful, how marvelous, is God’s design! Upholding God’s plan for the family strengthens the most basic unit of society and so promotes social justice and leads to peace. Through their work in Catholic education throughout the nation, our Sisters strive to support families while proclaiming the beauty of God’s plan in all its fullness.

By stepping out in faith to form a new religious community twenty-one years ago, and continuing to open their doors to so many young vocations, even when it seems impossible to provide for their housing and educational needs, our foundresses have born unique testimony to the dignity of each life and each vocation. Joining in prayer with the whole Church, they took your intentions and those of all our benefactors and families with them to Rome, and entrusted them to the powerful intercession of these two newest saints of the Church. Pope Paul VI and Oscar Romero, pray for us!

 

Thanks be to God for our Sisters who made Professions!

We give thanks to God for the incredible young women who made Vows! They are a gift to our community and the Universal Church. In professing Vows, the Sisters freely dedicate themselves to a life of consecrated chastity, poverty and obedience. Contrary to worldly wisdom, they are not running away from the world or themselves but are passionately embracing the living God, whom they love above all things. After three years of initial formation and prayerful discernment, the Novice freely lays down her life as a holocaust to become part of the beating heart of Holy Mother Church.

On July 25, seven of the Sisters professed their Perpetual Vows as “brides of Christ”, promising to joyfully live the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience for all their lives. Two days later, on July 27, six other Sisters professed their Temporary Vows. Both of these solemn Masses were attended by many of the Sisters’ family and friends, as well as various bishops and priests from all over the country, who came to celebrate with us.

Finally, in a private ceremony, the Postulants took the next step in religious life as they entered the Novitiate and received the white Dominican habit and veil, as well as their new religious names. Praise God!

On July 25, seven Sisters prostrated themselves and made vows to live consecrated chastity, poverty and obedience “for all their lives”
On July 27, six Sisters made First Professions (pictured) and received their black veils
Postulants became Novices and received their Dominican habits in a private ceremony

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us!

The Sisters invite all mothers to celebrate ourcommunity’s patronal feast honoring Mary as Mother of the Eucharist in a special way. Today, we recall Mary’s own motherhood to Jesus, Whose same Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity we adore and receive in the Holy Eucharist.

 

As we approach the end of the Easter season, we are mindful that Christ’s whole Person ascended into Heaven, where His Sacred Heart and Mary’s Immaculate Heart beat, wildly in love with us. We invite you to contemplate, with us and with Our Lady, this wondrous mystery:

 

O Virgin Immaculate, who after the Ascension of thy Divine Son
consoled thy exile on earth by the Real Presence of Jesus in the Sacrament,
and spent before the tabernacle the greater part of thy days and even thy nights,
make us comprehend the treasure we possess on the altar.
Inspire us to often visit the God of Love in the Sacrament in which He abides
to receive the homage that He deserves by so many titles
and to guide, protect and console us in this exile!
(Excerpt from the Novena to Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament)

 

Pray for us, O Virgin Immaculate, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that the Eucharistic Kingdom of Jesus Christ may come among us!​

He is Risen Indeed!

Christ is Risen – Alleluia!
The Resurrection is true! Jesus is ALIVE!

 

The Risen Lord is the reason for our Hope! The Easter Season has commenced – the season of the empty tomb, of Christ’s appearances to hundreds, and of the conversions of thousands who saw in Him the fulfillment of the scriptures continues to bring hope! The Resurrection infuses meaning and purpose into the crosses we bear, and in a culture often devoid of hope and meaning, we can ponder the Resurrection and what His risen life means for our own.

 

We often cannot find answers to our many and various questions regarding suffering. However, we can find meaning and purpose to that suffering, and when we contemplate the reality of the resurrection and eternal life, we clearly see that the Suffering Christ conquered death! Christ and His Resurrection are key to understanding the question of suffering.

 

Having been baptized into the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ, we are made children of God and temples of the Holy Trinity. The theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity fill our souls, and our Risen Lord is ever ready to increase these virtues if only we ask and pray. Therefore, in this Easter Season, join us in praying “The Act of Hope”:

 

O my God, relying on Your almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Your grace and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen.