An Associate heart is a servant heart – so needed in our world today.
Dominican Associates are non-vowed women and men who desire to practice their Christian faith in the spirit of the Dominican Order of Preachers. More than 150 Associates have made commitment to Associate Life, supporting one another and bringing Dominican values to their family, community, place of worship and workplace.
Our mission is to Preach in all ways through Prayer, Justice, Community, Service, Joy, and Study. Touched by the Holy One, we journey in solidarity with the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids and with one another. Connecting and collaborating in Christian mission and spirituality, we embrace the Dominican charism emboldened by faith , serving with joy.
“If you are going to live your life with Christ, one of the great challenges is to forget yourself. We live in a very introverted society, which is always focusing on me, me, me. I think the great challenge, if you are going to be alive, is sometimes the great liberation of forgetting yourself – that’s when you discover in other people their need for your love, and their need for your trust.”
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP
”“Naming Grace” is how Sister Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, defines preaching.
Praising, Blessing, and Preaching…
is lived out by all forms of Dominican life today in multiple and diverse ways.
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, defines preaching as “naming Grace”.
Others might call it sharing the “good news of salvation and freedom” Jesus Christ brought to us.
While not all have the opportunity of formal preaching, all baptized have the call to praise, to bless and to evangelize, that is, to name grace in words of joy and thanksgiving and touch the mind and the heart and the very lives of those we find on our path of life with the truth and liberating love of God for us experienced in Jesus.
The mission of Dominican Sisters and Associates~Grand Rapids, in both our personal and professional ministries, is to praise, to bless and to preach the Gospel with integrity, truth and joy. This includes empowering people spiritually, intellectually, socially, materially, and by promoting justice through prayer, study and service.
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