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On Saturday, September 15th, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill honored both their past and their present while celebrating a Mass of Thanksgiving for the congregation’s sixty years of ministry in Pakistan. What began as an invitation from the Dominican Friars in New York to Mother Kevin Sullivan to participate in building the Church in Pakistan […]
On September 25, 2018, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill hosted the second Dr. J. T. Vincent Lou Lecture. Their guest speaker for the evening, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, is Distinguished Professor of Theology Emerita at Fordham University. For the lecture, Dr. Johnson tackled the topics of creation and ecology with the main question for the […]
Golden Jubilarians The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill celebrated the Golden jubilees of 3 Sisters on Saturday, October 6, 2018, with a Mass honoring the patroness of the Congregation, Our Lady of the Rosary. Each Sister marked her 50th Anniversary as a Catholic Sister and a member of the Sparkill Congregation! We congratulate these Sisters for […]
FALLING WATERS PRESERVE HUDSON VALLEY – Hudson Valley magazine promoted its annual “Best of Hudson Valley” special issue as a guide to the region’s finest offerings. It cited Falling Waters Preserve in Saugerties as the “Best New Park. Falling Waters Preserve is an excellent place to explore the rugged beauty of the Hudson River. Hikers […]
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, approximately fifty Sisters, Associates and friends of the Sparkill community, including Dominican Sisters from neighboring congregations in Amityville, NY and Caldwell, NJ, participated in the Women’s March in New York City. This peaceful march was one of hundreds held around the world on that day with the mission of promoting […]
This past year, Dominicans worldwide have been celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the founding of the Order by St. Dominic de Guzman. This joyous celebration just came to a close and the Sparkill Congregation was lucky to have two of our Sisters, Mary Jane Bookstaver and Kathleen Donnelly, attend the Closing Mass for the 800th […]
Twenty years ago, Sr. Cecilia LaPietra, OP, was looking to get involved with a social ministry that assisted Spanish-speaking Catholics. She recognized a great need in her local Rockland County, NY community which had a growing immigrant population seeking education and opportunities to learn the English language. Out of this need, One to One Learning, […]
Sr. Maureen Bradshaw was awarded a Service Award for her outstanding service to humanity by the St. Charles A.M.E. Zion Church in Sparkill, NY at their Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Breakfast on January 16, 2017. Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the keynote speaker, received the Humanitarian Award and Hon. Toney L. Earl, Chair of the Rockland […]
A group of Sparkill Dominican Sisters and friends joined over 100 local residents for a rally in Nanuet, NY on May 1, 2017 in support of the rights of workers, immigrants and all people. The rally was held in the town of Nanuet at the “4 corners” – one of the area’s busiest intersections, and […]
Diamond Jubilarians The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill celebrated the Diamond Jubilees of 36 Sisters on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Each Sister marked her 60th, 65th, 70th, or 75th Anniversary as a member of the Congregation. As it does each year, the Diamond Jubilee celebration coincided with the anniversary of the Congregation’s founding. We congratulate and […]