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The OP after our names stands for “Order of Preachers,” the formal name of the religious order founded in 1216 by St. Dominic. As Dominicans, we preach with our lives—in both word and deed—guided by a search for truth (veritas) and a commitment to contemplate and share the fruits of our contemplation (contemplate et aliis tradere).
Our Dominican lives are shaped by the interconnecting movements of study, prayer, communal life, and ministry.
Dominic so firmly believed in the importance of study to the preaching mission that he provided a rule of “dispensation” from other responsibilities in the event they interfered with study. We are women committed to study. Through prayer and contemplation we interiorize our learnings and enter into communion with the Source of all truth. Our communal life orients us to the common good of the whole Earth community. And in ministry, our preaching takes effect.
As women of the Gospel, our preaching is also expressed in word. Read reflections on the Word of God posted by Adrian Dominican Sisters and Associates on the Praedicare Blog below.
Sunday, March 29, 2026 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Matthew 26:14 - 27:66
About three weeks ago, PBS had a promotional fund raiser using the album of Barbara Streisand called Timeless. The title struck me as so appropriate. I think most of us would agree that Barbara Streisand is timeless, as well as her songs. What does it mean to be timeless? One definition is “not appearing to be affected by the passage of time… Enduring… Does not change as the years go past.”
Once again we gather in worship to tell and listen to the timeless story of Palm Sunday, which begins the week of the timeless narratives of Holy Week. However there is one caveat. As the French-American essayist Anaïs Nin wrote, “We do not tell stories as they are. We tell them as we are.” We are not the same as we were last Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Even if we go back to Ash Wednesday and recall Jesus saying to us, “I think I know you. Got some time to catch up?” And yes, these 40 days of Lent were the acceptable time. Hopefully we have come to know Jesus in a deeper way.
So the story of Jesus, the triumphant entry, the donkey, the palms, is timeless. The story hasn’t changed but we have. What do we hear, notice, feel about this day different from before because of where our life has been since the last Gospel narration? Because of where our world has been?
This is a week of contrasts. We begin with joy and end with pain and sorrow. Within the liturgy itself today, we hear of people shouting and acclaiming Jesus as king. And the following reading is the pain of the Passion, and then we have everything in between those times. It’s sort of like the bookends of our lives: joy and sorrow.
I wonder, as Jesus rode on that donkey amid the crowds, if he didn’t have the thought as in the musical Hamilton, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story, …my story?”
Is it not us? Is it not us so many years later who share this timeless story with family, friends, co- workers and strangers we meet this Holy Week, asking ourselves how will we live our lives faithful to the memory of God’s love?
It’s interesting that Matthew ends the Passion narrative saying, “So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.” That’s where we are going this week: to the cross, to the tomb, where we let go of what has given our life meaning and value.
Our dreams will be shattered into fragments of cold and gray. Our palms left behind on a dusty road. Something deep inside of us will be shattered, waiting to be put together so we can tell the timeless story once again with the passing of time into another year.
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