• What an immense blessing to begin a new mission! At the invitation of Bishop James S. Wall, three Sisters arrived to teach and administer Sacred Heart Catholic School in Gallup, New Mexico.
• Sacred Heart is a small school serving in a largely Native American (Navajo) community. As Gallup’s only Catholic school, the Sisters have enjoyed serving a diversity of students and getting to know the unique ‘flavor’ of the American Southwest in an area known as the “Four Corners.”
• A major highlight has been the number of students received into the Church throughout the school year. Seven students were baptized, and seven additional students received their First Communion and Confirmation! It was a tremendous blessing to prepare the students and
to witness their love and radiance as they received such an abundance of grace!
• Enrollment is growing quickly as the school continues to grow stronger spiritually and academically. The Sisters are looking forward to serving another year and planting more seeds in their area of the Kingdom!

• The school year welcomed Sr. Mary Regina in her first year as principal of St. Michael School and Sr. John Paul in her first year as assistant superintendent of Catholic culture for the Office of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Columbus.
• The Sisters provided sacramental preparation to students, especially Sr. Chiara Luce preparing second graders for First Communion, Sr. Josefa preparing eighth graders for Confirmation, and Sr. Teresa Paul and Sr. Maria Rosario providing liturgical catechesis through the Catechesis of the
Good Shepherd.
• The Sisters delighted in the diocesan celebration for the World Day of Consecrated Life with Bishop Fernandes, which happily coincided with a visit from Mother Amata Veritas.
• Other highlights included participating in the Columbus Catholic Women’s Conference, joining with the Sisters of Life at the Columbus Young Adult Conference, bringing students to the Ohio March and National March for Life in Washington DC, joining the Good Friday procession of the Stations of the Cross through downtown Columbus, and honoring Our Lady of Fatima as they processed with hundreds of faithful through Columbus.

• Sr. Maria Veritas returned to DC in January to defend her dissertation. In May, several Sisters came to celebrate and attend the commencements for Sr. John Mary, who earned a Licentiate from the School of Canon Law, and Sr. Maria Veritas, graduating from the School of Theology and Religious Studies with a PhD in Theology.
• This past year was the second year the Sisters lived at the Theological College. They were blessed to support the seminarians with prayer, presence, and even cheering them on for the Vianney Cup Soccer Tournament on the National Mall.
• The Sisters participated in the March for Life, marching with other Sisters in our community, including Mother Amata Veritas and Sr. Mary Michael. It was a joy to encounter many sisters, former students, benefactors, and friends in the apostolate.
• The Sisters attended and hosted several Sisters for the first Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage.

• Four students from St. Michael’s were baptized this year! Sr. Fulton Marie and Sr. Mary Bethany had the joy of preparing second graders for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.
• The Findlay mission convent was in the perfect location for 3 minutes, 44 seconds of totality for the solar eclipse. The mission Sisters hosted 30+ of our Sisters from local missions and the motherhouse for a 2-in-1 celebration of the eclipse and the transferred Solemnity of the Annunciation.
• This summer, four of our Sisters will attend the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis with Bishop Thomas and a pilgrimage group representing the Diocese of Toledo.

• The Our Lady of Guadalupe Priory held four retreats for college and high school discerning young women, teachers, principals, and mothers.
• The Sisters at St. Helen’s Catholic School, St. Dominic Savio High School, and Holy Family Catholic School initiated a “Supper with the Sisters” series for family catechesis.
• A Saint Bernard puppy was acquired for the Priory’s property. His name is Felix, and he joins Aza, an Airedale Terrier.
• Seminarians from Lansing and the Dominican Novices from the Southern Province visited St. Helen’s Catholic School, St. Dominic Savio High School, and Holy Family Catholic School.
• The Sisters took pilgrimages to the Painted Churches of Central Texas, the Missions of San Antonio, and the National Eucharistic Revival Pilgrimage at Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, TX.

• The Houston Convent hosted 28 young women for a day of vocation reflections and prayer.
• At the University of St. Thomas, Sr. Maria Frassati introduced her students to the world of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
• Sr. Albert Marie helped prepare the next generation of priests through her courses on Aquinas and St. Catherine at St. Mary’s Seminary.
• In the spring semester, Sr. Elizabeth John prepared her senior theology classes to own their faith on campus by teaching them logic and apologetics.
• Sr. Mary Philomena challenged her honors freshman to think more deeply about God’s handiwork through her lessons on evolution.
• Sr. Albert Marie spoke on St. Albert the Great and Anointing at Holy Rosary Church’s Lenten speaker series.
• Sr. Elizabeth John and Sr. Maria Frassati were speakers and participants at the St. Theresa’s Confirmation weekend retreat at Camp Cho-Yeh.

• Sr. Katharine Rose planned and led the student leadership retreat, four class retreats (freshmen through senior), and the staff retreat.
• The Sisters joined several religious communities in speaking at the Love’s Reply Discernment retreat hosted by the KC-Kansas Diocese and at the Benedictine College Discernment retreat for women.
• 10% of the student body attended the National Catholic Youth Conference with two of the Sisters.
• The Sisters enrolled new members into the Angelic Warfare Confraternity and offered parent faith formation events throughout the year.
• The Sisters attended a Eucharistic Revival initiative called Behold KC. Both Kansas City dioceses joined together to recreate the first major outdoor Eucharistic adoration event in the city, which occurred at the Liberty Memorial on May 4, 1941.
• The Sisters made a pilgrimage to the Benedictine monasteries near us–Conception Abbey, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, and the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles in Gower, where Sr. Wilhelmina is entombed.
• The Encounter School of Ministry Healing School put on a weekend workshop in which the Sisters participated and prayed for people at a healing service.

• At Lansing Catholic, while teaching English, Science, and Math, the Sisters also accompanied many students on their faith journey. Several students and staff came into the Church, the Sisters joined the Sophomores on a life-changing Kairos retreat, and the Guardians of the Altar group (sacristans, servers, readers, and musicians) continues to grow.
• At Resurrection School, Sr. Theresita and Sr. Anthony Marie continued to form their students in truth, beauty, and goodness. The second graders showed an incredible desire to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, fostered by Mass at the school three times a week. The middle schoolers, using a new science curriculum, explored how the order of the natural world points to a loving, providential Father.
• We are blessed to be in the heart of the Diocese of Lansing, and we participated in some of the many incredible events for evangelization and formation, such as the Michigan March for Life.

• The Long Island Sisters are grateful for many blessings during year three of the mission. Several students entered the Church or completed the rest of their sacraments of initiation. We have also initiated Eucharistic processions on campus.
• Pilgrimage has been the theme of the year. The Sisters were thrilled to join in the Eucharistic procession through Times Square as well as attend the New York Eucharistic Congress at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs.
• The Sisters attended the first annual rosary pilgrimage in DC hosted by the Eastern Province Dominican Friars and also joined the Friars for their priestly ordinations.

• The Sisters hosted three Western Province Dominican novices once a week at Marin Catholic to give them a taste of the apostolate.
• On March 16 they hosted a Women’s Retreat called “Heaven Bound” for over 50 women.
• On January 20 they participated in the West Coast Walk for Life.
• They helped lead retreats and give talks at the University of Oregon Spring Retreat and a confirmation retreat in South San Francisco in May.
• The Sisters participated in the first leg of the western route of the Eucharistic Pilgrimage across the Golden Gate Bridge on Pentecost.

• A third Sister joined Peoria Notre Dame (PND) High School as a campus minister and a theology teacher.
• Four students from PND High School participated in Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA); two were baptized, and two more made their profession of faith and were received into the Church. At St. Jude Catholic School, one second grader was baptized, and one teacher was received into full communion.
• The PND student body cheered uproariously at the last all-school Mass with the announcement that graduating senior Danny Miller is entering seminary.
• Eighty PND students participated in Magnify and Exodus during Lent, a 90-day spiritual journey to grow closer to God and others. The Sisters also accompanied students at the National and Illinois March for Life, and thirty students spend their lunch and free time in Campus Ministry each day.
• The Eucharistic Revival is thriving at St. Jude parish and school with family Adoration nights and weekly videos featuring student testimonies.

• Sr. Maria Gemma prepared over sixty third graders at St. Thomas the Apostle to receive Confirmation and First Holy Communion.
• The Sisters at St. Mary’s High School helped plan and lead two Kairos retreats and four class retreats throughout the year, as well as took a group of students to the April discernment retreat at the Motherhouse.
• Sr. Rose will finish her four years of medical school, graduating in June and taking her Board exams in August!
• The Sisters had the opportunity to attend several special Masses, including a Mass for the Consecration of the Virgin living in the world, a Mass for Consecrated Men and Women in the Diocese of Phoenix on the Feast of the Presentation, a healing Mass for the World Day of the Sick, and the ordination of three priests in the Diocese of Phoenix.

• In addition to serving as librarians in the NAC and in administration for the Angelicum, our Rome Sisters have had a busy and fruitful year!
• The Angelicum hosted a very well-attended Hillbilly Thomists concert in November, which Sr. Maria helped organize and introduce.
• The NAC invited Peggy Noonan to give the annual Carl J. Peter lecture on homiletics in March, which the Sisters were able to attend.
• Mother Amata Veritas and the Sisters made a Padre Pio-themed pilgrimage to San Giovanni Rotondo and Pietrelcina in November.
• The Sisters made a Dominican-themed pilgrimage during Easter week. They visited the churches of St. Agnes of Montepulciano, St. Catherine of Siena, the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, the Fra Angelico frescos of San Marco in Florence, and St. Dominic in Bologna.

• With great joy, the Sisters were blessed to witness five of their students enter the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil!
• The Sisters participated in the Walk for Life West Coast, walked in the Eucharistic Procession through downtown Sacramento as part of the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress, attended Vespers and Dinner hosted by Bishop Soto for Religious of the Diocese, and gave a talk at the Newman
Centers of Chico/Sacramento/Davis Women’s Retreat.
• During the Easter Triduum, the Sisters celebrated with the Dominican Friars at St. Dominic’s in San Francisco.

• Thirty-three JSerra students converted to Catholicism this year, receiving the Sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion, and Confirmation!!
• The Sisters’ athletic outreach continued, visiting teams and sharing our favorite convent treats with them. They were blessed to see seven members of the football team among those baptized!
• JSerra saw an unparalleled year of success in sports, with championship wins through fall, winter, and spring seasons! So proud of the Lion Nation! Our biggest challenge was getting to the important games when there are so many throughout the year!
• The Sisters distributed over 900 copies of Openlight Media’s Virtue Field Guide to the JSerra community.

• With the appointment of a new pastor, Fr. Joe Barron, of the religious community of Pro Ecclesia Sancta, our Sisters have begun a new collaboration with another group of religious with a charism complementary to ours. The presence of religious brothers alongside the Dominican Sisters of Mary has brought new life and joy to the parish and school communities.
• The Sisters hosted two women’s retreats – one in Advent and one in Lent – with the assistance of the St. Isaac Jogues Women’s Club.
• Two of the St. Isaac Jogues second graders were baptized during the school year in order to receive First Holy Communion with their classmates, and other school families entered the church at the Easter Vigil.
• The ongoing implementation of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in our Atrium included the addition of a time for toddlers, following the “Littles Holy Hour” offered weekly at St. Isaac Jogues. So many moms brought their little ones and learned more about how to pray with their children!
• For the second year, our SIJ eighth grade class trip was a pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in upstate New York – the site of martyrdom of St. Isaac Jogues and two of his companions (with a stop at Niagara Falls along the way).
• The parish has introduced a Cor Ad Cor Holy Hour on First Friday evenings, with great attendance by our students, school families, other parishioners, and young adults from around the Archdiocese of Detroit.
• The Sisters have continued to support the Archdiocese of Detroit’s initiative to “Unleash the Gospel,” not only by their educational endeavors, but also through their participation in a variety of vocation and youth events. Through visits to sacred sites such as the Solanus Casey Center, they ask the intercession of our local “blessed.” The Sisters also participated in a variety of events – from the St. Clair Shores Memorial Day Parade to attending the Chrism Mass and Priestly Ordinations at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. They even snuck in a couple of Detroit Tigers’ games!

• Two new Sisters arrived on our mission and brought the number up to five Sisters teaching at St. Agnes.
• Sr. Catherine Marie led an all-staff retreat morning and spoke on the Theology of the Body and the importance of addressing the questions of the human heart.
• Two of the Sisters took fifteen high school girls from St. Agnes to the November discernment retreat at the Motherhouse.
• The Sisters venerated the relics of St. Therese and her parents (Sr. Mary Martha was on the diocesan Eucharistic revival committee that planned this!), as well as St. Jude.
• The Sisters participated in the National Eucharistic procession as it passed through St. Paul.

• Several students (and families!) from the school entered the Church during the Easter season!
• The Bishop Louis Reicher High School Pro-Life Club led the Texas Walk for Life in January with 25 students. The club launched this fall with six members. At the most recent meeting, 45 students were in attendance!
• The Scanlan Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to Bishop Louis Reicher for a Eucharistic Miracles & Saints Pilgrimage that next year’s upperclassmen will attend in the 2025 Jubilee Year.
• Sr. Maximilian Marie and Sr. Maria Benedicta took three high school girls up to Ann Arbor for the February Discernment Retreat. Thirteen young ladies from the high school attended the “Day with the Sisters” discernment retreat in Georgetown.
• Film producer Leo Severino came to Bishop Louis Reicher to do a special pre-screening of his film, Cabrini, in partnership with 40 Days for Life.
• This years’ Arts & Anthropology Enrichment Modules, which strive to form students in leisure, included a dance clinic (Reverence and the Art of Dance), themed picnic outings (Beauty and the Art of Leisure), and heading outdoors with our sketch pads for the “Art of Seeing and Drawing.”
• The Sisters and their students got to experience April’s total solar eclipse for nearly four minutes.

• Eight Sisters continued their studies this year at Franciscan University of Steubenville – six as undergraduates and two studying theology at the graduate level.
• Sr. Maria Paula and Sr. Joseph Lucia student taught and then graduated with their teaching degrees! They are off to other missions in the apostolate for the coming school year! We are looking forward to welcoming two new temporary professed Sisters in the fall to begin in-person studies.
• While studying, we were also able to do apostolic work in West Virginia, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania including preaching retreats, days of reflection, and parish Lenten missions.
• We continue to love building relationships with students and colleagues on the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville and witnessing to the joy of religious life (and representing the Dominicans in Franciscan territory!)!
• It is an immense blessing to give our Sisters such a solid Catholic education, which they will be able to pass on to their future students for decades to come!