Sinsinawa Dominican Vision Magazine Index
May 2010
On the Cover: Body Broken by Sister Rose Marie Conway, OP (Mary Felipe), courtesy of the Sinsinawa Dominican Office of Arts and Cultural Heritage. Circa 1981.
“What Do You Ask?” “The Mercy of God and Yours”
This is my favorite, favorite line. When I transferred into the Sinsinawa Dominicans at my public profession, I sang this piece with our then Prioress Sister Kaye Ashe, OP. What does it mean to me? It means that I am accepted as I am and that frail, less-than, bowed, I am loved into new life and new being. Read more . . .
Experiencing Mercy through Compassion, Grief, & Change
"Back in the day”—around 1981 or ’82—I had the privilege of hearing Hans Küng, a contemporary German theologian, give a talk at the University of Chicago. He articulated a sentence I have never forgotten. Hans Küng said, “Jesus went about dumping mercy indiscriminately everywhere he went.” Read more . . .
Mercy in the Dominican Tradition
I was a little girl when I first heard about mercy. My mother would sing hymns to me as I was falling asleep. They were her lullabies. The words to one of them came back to me as I pondered mercy. Read more . . .
Learning about Mercy from Our Parents
My most sharp memory of understanding the meaning of the word “mercy” is a moment when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Read more . . .
At the Heart of God’s Heart
Some of our great poets have tried to describe “mercy” but attempts of even the greatest poets can miss their mark. When William Shakespeare wrote that “The quality of Mercy is not strain’d, it droppeth as the gentle rain upon the place beneath,” he reached for the sky, but even Shakespeare’s lofty words and enormous talent could not describe fully the “mercy of God.” No one can do so. Read more . . .
Receiving ‘the Mercy of God and Yours’
I spoke at the senior breakfast at St. Giles Parish in Oak Park, IL. The Lenten theme was “On a Sacred Journey, Discovering God’s Mercy.” Those words at first profession, “What do you ask?” “The mercy of God and yours,” came alive for me. Read more . . .
Fr. Samuel's Life Reflects Mercy
When we think of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP, we remember his many remarkable accomplishments, his architecture, his foundations, his efforts to obtain justice for the Native Americans, or . . . the list is almost unending! But I had not thought of him in the light of his mercy. Read more . . .