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On Friday, November 19, St. Thomas Aquinas College honored Sister Nancy Richter, OP, with the 2021 Founders Award at the Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, NJ. In 1970, Sister Nancy began her ministry in elementary education, a journey that would last for 26 years. Elected to the Leadership Team of the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill […]

On Sunday, November 14, Pope Francis launched the Laudato Sí Action Platform, based on his second encyclical subtitled “On Care of Our Common Home.” We, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, are committed to protecting the environment, as we clearly state in our Mission Statement and our land ethic. On Monday, November 15, we held a […]

Our Sparkill Dominican Associates collaborated with the Pajama Program and held our third annual Pajama & Book Drive. We thank all in the community who donated pairs of pajamas with books for bedtime to children in area shelters. Some of the donations came in the form of checks, and gift cards, too.   Under the […]

For three years, the middle school students from St. Gregory Barbarigo School have traveled to the cemetery at Dominican Convent to place the red bows made by Sister Ann Eigenbauer, other Sisters, and Associates on the graves of deceased Sparkill Dominican Sisters. For the past two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the students have […]

The New York City HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) was honored at the Wholeness of Life Gala on Thursday, November 4, 2021. Sister Margaret Theresa Oettinger, OP, director of spiritual care at Hospital for Special Surgery, was joined by her chaplaincy staff and members of the HSS spiritual care committee, along with the chaplains from Mary […]

The Dominican Sisters Commitment to Pope Francis Laudato Sí Platform We, the members of the Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary, Sparkill, New York, USA publicly commit to join the worldwide Catholic community with prayer and action in support of the Laudato Sí Action Plan. In our Land Ethic, we embrace the following: […]

At a ceremony in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, on October 16, 2021, Sisters Shabnum Robia Francis, Sadaf William, and Robina Komal Nazir renewed their vows as members of the Sparkill Dominican Pakistani community.  Sister Nusrat Lewis, Regional, received the vows on behalf of the Sparkill Dominican congregation. Sister Robina is a teacher at Dominican Convent Higher Secondary School […]

We welcome our newest Associate, Patti McCallion. She made her first commitment as a Sparkill Dominican Associate, Thursday, October 7, at the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill celebration of Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Dominican Convent, Sparkill, NY. Sister Mary Murray, president of the congregation, received […]

From June 28 – July 7, 2021, Sister Patricia Daly (Caldwell), Sister Patricia Ginty (Blauvelt), Fiona Kyle, Sister Valorie Lordi (Sparkill), Sister Carolann Masone (Amityville), Sister Diane McSherry (Sparkill), and Sister Margaret O’Doherty (Sparkill) traveled to Laredo, Texas, as part of a Dominican Sisters mission team. Sister Jeanne Shary described the experience of refugees crossing […]