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68 Dominican Sisters of Mary to Visit Philipstown This Weekend as Welcomed Guests of Parish of Our Lady of Loretto
Will join the parish for Holy Mass on Friday night and Holy Hour on Saturday morning
Some may do a "double take" next weekend if they should chance upon the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist walking the streets of Cold Spring or Garrison. Sixty-eight of the Sisters will be coming to Philipstown for the weekend to see Pope Benedict XVI in Yonkers and at Yankee Stadium, and are the welcomed guests of the Parish of Our Lady of Loretto.
The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist are a Roman Catholic community of women religious founded in 1997. Pope John Paul II's call for a "New Evangelization" inspired four Dominican Sisters to seek God's will by renewing religious life, reviving traditional Catholic education and restoring authentic Catholic culture. On February 9, 1997, John Cardinal O'Connor of New York recognized the Sister's desire to develop a new Community and established them in the Archdiocese of New York as the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. It was while the Sisters were in New York that Father McSweeney, who was teaching Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, introduced some of his students to the new Community. One of those students is now Sr. John Mary, O.P., the Novices' Mistress.
Shortly after their establishment the Sisters accepted an invitation to teach in the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan and administer and staff the Spiritus Sanctus Academies in Ann Arbor, thanks in part to the patronage of Tom Monahan of Domino's Pizza.
Now, ten years later, the Sisters number over 70 and have teaching missions in Arizona, South Carolina, California and Florida. The average age of the Sisters is twenty-six! Father McSweeney constantly prays for their return one day to New York for a permanent mission.
The Sisters will be joining the parish for Holy Mass on Friday April 18 at 5:30pm, and they will be praying Compline (Night Prayers) in the Church at about 7pm Friday night. You are also invited to join the Sisters for a Holy Hour on Saturday morning from 7 to 8am before the 8:15am Mass. They will then be joining the youth of the parish at His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI's Youth Rally on Saturday April 19 and accompany the representatives of the parish to the Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium on Sunday April 20.
The Sisters will be housed thanks to the generosity of a benefactor in Garrison and the board of the Nazareth Life Center, also in Garrison, and be fed thanks to the generosity of the parishioners of the parish. So feel free to come and visit with the Sisters in prayer or, in their spare time, if you see them wandering through Garrison or on Main Street in Cold Spring, feel free to welcome them to the neighborhood!
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