PSA-9010-2 #9 CRM - Dominican Sisters of Peace
PSA-9010-2 #9 CRM - Dominican Sisters of Peace
PSA-9010-2 #9 CRM - Dominican Sisters of Peace
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Inside<br />
<strong>Sisters</strong>’ Ministries 2-6<br />
Overseas Missions 7<br />
Retirement Needs 8<br />
General/As Needed Fund 9<br />
Jubilee 2010 10<br />
Honor Roll <strong>of</strong> Donors 11-25<br />
Gifts In Kind 25<br />
Honorary Gifts 26-27<br />
Beloved Families, Friends, and Benefactors,<br />
Memorial Gifts 28-35<br />
Born into Eternal Life 36<br />
I approach this letter with the holy season <strong>of</strong> Thanksgiving in mind. I am sure you<br />
share my sense that it is a sacred time, free <strong>of</strong> commercial incentives and full <strong>of</strong> spiritual<br />
ones. Our family and yours cherish these opportunities to gather around our tables and<br />
to give thanks to God who has blessed us all so generously with the priceless gifts <strong>of</strong><br />
life, love, and compassion. As a congregation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Sisters</strong> who have been graced by your<br />
generosity, we want to assure you that we try to live out in a tangible way our gratitude<br />
for your gifts, a kind <strong>of</strong> “Thanks-living” that embodies in a very real way our Eucharistic<br />
faith. Please know that you and your loved ones are remembered at our daily Eucharistic<br />
table, that most sublime prayer <strong>of</strong> thanksgiving.<br />
Through your generosity to us, you participate with us in our mission, and this is a<br />
blessing for you and for us. We carry your presence, your embrace, to God’s people. Because<br />
<strong>of</strong> your generosity this past year we are in a position to insure that our mission <strong>of</strong><br />
preaching holds pride <strong>of</strong> place in the way we live together and minister to others. Each<br />
day, as we go forth to our ministries <strong>of</strong> education, health care, social services, pastoral<br />
work, and simple presence, we extend your concern and compassion along with our<br />
own to those we meet. You enable these good works, our simple gifts <strong>of</strong> service, to happen.<br />
You will find in these pages a record <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the milestones in our first year as the<br />
<strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Sisters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peace</strong>: pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> vows, celebrations <strong>of</strong> jubilees, some <strong>of</strong> the<br />
works <strong>of</strong> our <strong>Sisters</strong> in founded and supported ministries, and the deaths <strong>of</strong> members <strong>of</strong><br />
the congregation – some <strong>of</strong> whom you have known well. The list <strong>of</strong> memorial tributes<br />
attests to the fact that you have treasured the lives <strong>of</strong> these <strong>Sisters</strong>. Their vision has<br />
made it possible for us to become the congregation we are today. I assure you that we<br />
will carry their memory with us in our journey forward, for as we say in our new Constitutions:<br />
“We, the <strong>Dominican</strong> <strong>Sisters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peace</strong>, journey together inspired by the wisdom<br />
and faith <strong>of</strong> our founders and the courage with which they faced their future.”<br />
Financial Report 37<br />
Because <strong>of</strong> your generosity, we face our future with humble faith and gratitude.<br />
May we all celebrate these festive months with “Thanks-living”!<br />
With a grateful heart,<br />
Margaret Ormond, OP<br />
Prioress
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