Dominican Sisters of Peace

Soon the Super Bowl frenzy will begin. Thousands of people will descend on New Orleans. Unfortunately some of those arriving will be girls and young women trafficked as sex slaves. This reality is repeated at every major sporting event around the world. The US Department of Justice reports that human trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry, behind drug trafficking. Children represent half of all victims.

Mark your calendar for February 15-17, 2013!
That's when the Dominican Sisters of Peace will be offering a vocation "Come and See Retreat" in Columbus, OH.

This could be the "New Year" you finally "take the plunge" and courageously acknowledge the unsettling stirrings of "call" you are feeling deep inside yourself.

Sometimes, when we first become aware that God may be inviting us to consider religious life, we simply "freak out" and say, "Am I crazy?! What will my friends and parents think?! This life must be for someone else, not me!"

Our Associates Office and Vocations Team, based out of Akron, OH, wish you a very Merry Christmas and blessed New Year!

As noted in the last (November 28) blog, two critical aspects of Dominican living are sniffing out and holding up truth wherever it is found and living a simple life supported by a loving community. However, the essence of a Dominican man/Dominican woman is preacher. Profession into the Order (Brothers and Sisters), commitment to the Order (Associates) identifies each as preacher. And this is more than naming. It consists in being - knowing from head to foot, from inside to outside that one is preacher. We Dominicans preach with all we are in all that we do. The being is more important than the doing. How we are being in what we are doing is what is critical. Every conscious act of ours has influence - on ourselves and eventually on others. Each choice to be a certain way influences our own transformation.