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September 15, 2019

This Summer has been very full.  We have accompanied our Sr Godelieve in her transitus to Eternal Life. We have opened a new Welcome Center for our Retreatants, Guests and Visitors We have been graced by the teaching, deep spirituality, and wisdom of two Dominicans,  Fr. Michael Dodds, OP and Sr. Barbara Green, OP.  Fr. […]

Chapter Talk – 24thSunday – September 15, 2019, cycle-C In our retreat with Fr. Michael Dodds, OP, our second conference was on ‘the hiddenness of God’.  This hiddenness of God, the God who is unknowable leads, Fr. Michael said, to some people denying the very existence of God.  What I was struck by in this […]

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