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January 18, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota – In the most recent issue of the National Catholic Sisters Week (NCSW) newsletter, blogger Christina Capecchi writes of the “year-round engagement” of Sister Lorraine Réaume, OP, Formation Director, and her NCSW Committee. The committee of volunteer Adrian Dominican Sisters and Co-workers not only plans events at the Motherhouse for National Catholic Sisters Week, but also events throughout the year, such as the Congregation’s booth at the Lenawee County Fair in 2017. 

Held March 8-14 every year, NCSW gives people throughout the United States the opportunity to become more aware of Catholic Sisters and the role they play in Church and in society. NCSW was first organized in 2014 by the National Catholic Sisters Project, originally co-directed by Adrian Dominican Sister Mary Soher, OP, and Molly Hazelton. 

Read the entire article by Christina Capecchi.

January 15, 2018, Adrian, Michigan – As our national sense of decency is assaulted by coarse and disrespectful public discourse, and our sense of unity fractured by words and actions that sow hatred and division, these words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak to us with fresh urgency today:

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to [hu]mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all [hu]mankind. [April 4, 1967, Riverside Church]

Dr. King’s call to love is at the heart of our Christian faith. It is, as he notes, “the force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life.” 

As we honor today the memory of one of our nation’s most prophetic national leaders, we Adrian Dominican Sisters call on ourselves and all people of faith and goodwill to strive to live that all-embracing love.