Request for Prayers

Sister Kathleen Voss requests prayers for the happy repose of her brother, Timothy Voss, who passed away Thursday in Florida.  

Universre Canticle of Sheila Flynn's women in NYC and prayer requests.

Attached you will find an invitation and announcement about the Universe Canticle done by the women of South Africa with Sheila Flynn OP.( http://mariposamuseum.org/events/?event_id1=22) It will be at a show in New York. You can send her congratulations and remembrances of seeing some of it at Racine at

sheilaflynn@ymail.com.

Request for prayer

One of our members, Nancy McAward OP ,in the infirmary at Columbus has died. She is a good friend of Coleen Gallagher (fobop@aol.com)who has supported Colleen's art through the years. Her funeral is Thursday.

Please continue to prayer

Elizabeth Slenker OP can use prayers as she walks with her sister Mary Ann Love who is undergoing chemo. We pray for Mary Ann and her family.

The Holidays are a difficult time so let us pray for all who mourn especially those who have lost family and friends throughout this year.

Thank you

I will continue to pass on the names of those interested in writing the history of Dominican Artists in the US. If you are interested email me and Janet Welsh OP at jwelshop@dom.edu.  She will be in touch

Barbara Schwarz OP

News of Membership

Nancy Murray OP - hear her about her story and her play on Dorothy Stang in a radio interview
http://wamc.org/post/rooted-love-life-and-death-sister-dorothy-stang


Thoma Swanson OP- speaker at Arts as Preaching Day at Albertus Magnus, New Haven

Requests for prayer:

Jill Poehlman is back in the hospital perhaps in ICU. She needs our prayers.

Cards of support can be sent to her and Mike at 1775 Arlington Lane, Glendale Heights IL 60139

Elizabeth Slenker OP can use prayers as she walks with her sister Mary Ann Love who is undergoing chemo. We pray for Mary Ann and her family.

Good News:

Last year at this time we were praying for Mary Fran Gorman after her car accident and illness. She is in the motherhouse but teaching pottery again. And we saw Mary Boyce who looked great at the gathering!

Liz Sully OP

SinsinOP this morning reported that Liz fractured her pelvis not her hip and is recuperating in hospital. Although a fractured pelvis is not good news, I would think that it is better than a fractured hip.

Prayers for her recovery

Elizabeth Nagel

Again our artists are in the NCR!

This time in the June 6-19 section Mission and Ministry, Rita Schlitz OP and Barbara Chenicek OP from Adrian were given a large article with wonderful pictures to celebrate their 40th anniversary at INAI Studios. Congratulations! Link is below.


http://ncr.travidia.com/SS/Page.aspx?sstarg=&facing=false&secid=145152&pagenum=4&artid=2156321&a=Space




And on Global Sisters Reports there are two blogs from Sheila Flynn OP in South Africa on her art and her ministry there! Congratulations Sheila!
http://globalsistersreport.org/news/ministry/sharing-her-art-profile-sr-sheila-flynn-4506
http://globalsistersreport.org/ministry/life-raft-hope-ocean-need-4216












Comment

Joseph Kilikevice	1:27 PM (13 minutes ago)
to me

Dominican artists,

INAI is Dominican preaching at its best. Barbara Chenicek, OP and Rita Schiltz, OP have expressed in sacred spaces what Vatican II sought to express in its amazing and spirit filled documents, (documents that were greatly influenced by Dominican theologians MD Chenu, Yves Congar and others).  I will never forget the day I entered the newly renovated Dominican Chapel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Its silent, beauty embraced me as I walked from the transition space at the entrance that guided me to the door that opened onto a journey of letting go into a sacred space of “what was deleted and what was included,” as Barbara and Rita put it.  It was a sacred place where I was being invited to delete things in myself so as to be welcomed and included in a space where I could encounter the holy.  

I began to notice the many details that together took part in the whole composition.  It was the exquisite beauty of unadorned walls that first struck me.  Angles and plaines created both communal liturgical space and private intimate spaces.  I noticed the neutral colors that allowed the brilliant greens in the large tapestry hung to celebrate summer.  Gentle movement of outdoor greens softly filtered through the translucent windows.  And I noticed my tears as I sat in the silence to receive the Word of God. where the place itself was sacred Dominican preaching. 

If you haven’t been to this chapel, it’s well worth your time to make a pilgrimage there.  Well done Rita and Barb.  I look forward to seeing the Great Bend, Kansas chapel at the DIA conference in 2015.

Joe Kilikevice, OP

Preaching thru the Arts

Some recent postings of Membership:


Our Brother Joe Kilikevice OP is featured in an article on his dances of universal peace in the NCR.
Congratulations Joseph!
http://ncronline.org/news/spirituality/dominican-brother-sees-prayer-dances-avenue-other-faiths




Barbara Schwarz has had some more postings in Visual Life blog of the Global Sisters Report 
See: http://globalsistersreport.org/spirituality/june-5-2014-4161 and http://globalsistersreport.org/blog/visual-life/june-2-2014-3651
A photo salsify is also on that column and is mine.
Earlier piece was at http://globalsistersreport.org/column/speaking-god/spirituality/jesus-and-women-you-are-set-free-1186

Note the Global Sisters Report is open to your entries.(Sorry guys!) Visual Life is a place to share your photography, artwork and inspirational or thought-provoking quotes with all of us.  We welcome your ideas and images.

Email Tracy Abeln for more information or to share: tabeln@ncronline.org.

See too our Gallery at www.diartsop.org and see new postings of some of our membership!
We are proud of all of our artists.  To have your work posted we need digital copies. We do not have time to do scans and get it all up.




Take a chance and put your self out there.

Be sure to send things to Global Sisters Report

My art piece made it with proper attribution See: http://globalsistersreport.org/spirituality/june-5-2014-4161  Actual piece is brighter and pearlized background.

A photo salsify is also on that column and is mine. Even if they made me Franciscan.

Earlier piece was at http://globalsistersreport.org/column/speaking-god/spirituality/jesus-and-women-you-are-set-free-1186

Visual column is unpaid but gives exposure. 

 

Barbara