Who We Are

Meet the Sisters

Women today are still being called to listen to the Word of Christ, to ponder it and let it dwell in them; to study it and let it challenge them; to be silent and let it be fruitful within them; to celebrate it and let it return to God in praise and prayer.

Profiles

Sr. Anna Marie Pierre, O.P.
Novice Mistress

When I try to classify my earliest impressions and my initial response to God's call to become a religious, I find that fact and f...

Sr. David Marie Beikirch, O.P.
Sub Prioress

I have attended Catholic schools from first grade up to my first year in college. Naturally, during those years religious life was...

Sr. Genevieve James, O.P.

As secretary to a lawyer who was the vice president of a large machinery manufacturing company, I enjoyed my work, yet felt someth...

Sr. Jude Marie Thaddeus Masserano, O.P.

When a high school or college-age girl is looking ahead to the future, the most important part of the "what do I want to be when I...

Sr. Mary Agnes Daly, O.P.

I was attracted to the flowing habits of the Sisters of St. Joseph who taught me in grade school but it wasn''t until I was in 7th...

Sr. Mary Catherine Wolfe, O.P.

After college and some brief work experience I could not find any real meaning in business success or pleasurable relationships. O...

Sr. Mary Dominic Yanker, O.P.

Blessed with devout Catholic parents and a Catholic education, growing up I called Little Rock, AR, home. When I was 12, along wit...

Sr. Mary of Jesus Wiercinski, O.P.

Books and apples are among my early memories of growing up in New York's beautiful Hudson valley-apple country. The oldest of thr...

Sr. Mary of the Incarnation Driscoll, O.P.

As I sort through my memories of growing up, entering religious life and living these forty plus years in different places, doing ...

Sr. Mary of the Trinity Slavinski, O.P.

What drew me to the Dominican Monastery in Elmira, New York? I already had a beautiful home, a car, and a business in Oklahoma whi...

Sr. Mary St. John Castello, O.P.

On the day I received my First Holy Communion, I asked Jesus that I would always belong to Him. Although I chose "Ann" as my Confi...

Sr. Mary Stephen Heffer, O.P.

I was born in Rochester on January 2, 1944 to good parents. I have one sibling, a sister who is ten years my junior. From an early...

Sr. Miriam of the Cross Scheel, O.P.
Prioress

I was not yet a Catholic when I first began to feel a call to a greater union with God. During my early years I had always turned ...

Sr. Ritamae Dillon, O.P.

I am a native New Yorker [ born on the Island of Manhattan NYC ]. I had given some thought to religious life before college but f...

Meet the Chaplain

Fr. Joseph Anthony Breen, O.P.
Chaplain

On October 26, 2008 Fr. Joseph Anthony Breen, O.P., a native of Providence, R.I., was appointed our new chaplain. Fr. Breen was pa...