Liturgical Year Archives - Dominican Nuns

Image of angel statue with pastel amaryllis flowers

April 9, 2023April 8, 2023Liturgical Year

Easter Greetings

Joyful Easter greetings from the Dominican nuns!

March 14, 2023March 13, 2023Liturgical Year

Collection of Lenten Posts

As we observe this holy season, here are some of our posts from past years concerning Lenten prayers, practices, and devotions. During […]

Vocation Letters cartoon of Dominican nuns celebrating Easter Vigil with the paschal candle; Eucharistic Adoration with Easter lillies; Dominican nuns enjoying an outdoor Easter egg hunt under the statue of Our Lady.

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022Liturgical Year, Vocation Letters

Vocation Letters: Easter Exultation

What does Easter Exultation look like in the monastery? In this entry in our Vocation Letter series, Sister Mary Rosaria shares how we enter deeply into the Paschal Mystery of Christ through the monastic celebration of the Triduum, ending in Easter joy.

Embroidered design of the Paschal Lamb with the Dominican chant of the Ad Coenam Agni Providi hymn superimposed.

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022Liturgical Year

Easter Greetings

Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Joyful Easter greetings from the Dominican nuns at Marbury.

Vocation Letters cartoon of Dominican nuns living the liturgical season of Lent with their traditional practices of receiving Ashes, praying before Jesus on the cross, and covering statues with purple drapes for Passiontide.

March 13, 2022April 25, 2022Liturgical Year, Vocation Letters

Vocation Letters: Living Lent

Lent in the monastery is a going into the desert–even amid all the spring flowers in Alabama! Read this Vocation Letter to hear about Sister Mary Rosaria’s experience of living Lent as a cloistered Dominican nun.

Vocation Letters cartoon for Dominican nuns at Christmas time.

January 9, 2022January 11, 2022Liturgical Year, Vocation Letters

Vocation Letters: Celebrating Christmas

In this Vocation Letter, our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria reflects on the incarnational joy of Christmas celebrations in the monastery.

Vocation Letters cartoon of Dominican nuns preparing for Advent and singing the Rorate Caeli.

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021Liturgical Year, Vocation Letters

Vocation Letters: Longing for Advent

In the first installment in a mini-series on the liturgical seasons, our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria reflects on the special atmosphere of longing during the Advent season. Come, Lord Jesus!

Photo of angel statue with Easter lilies in sunlight, with text: Christus Surrexit, Alleluia, Alleluia!

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021Liturgical Year

Easter Greetings!

Most joyful greetings for a blessed Easter Octave! We pray that your Paschal observances have been as joyful as ours; may the Lord grant you His Peace this Easter!

December 16, 2020December 21, 2020Liturgical Year, Prayers

Solemn Novena for Christmas [Video]

We invite you to join us praying this Solemn Novena for Christmas, a special heritage of Dominican nuns in our country. As Advent draws ever closer to our celebration of Christ’s Birth, the longing of our hearts increases for the coming of our great King. This novena, with its nine-fold repetition of invocations to Our Lord, Our Lady, and St. Joseph, expresses and increases our desire for Jesus to come again into our hearts.

November 30, 2019December 8, 2020Liturgical Year, Prayers

Two Novenas To Begin Advent

All this past week, and especially today, we have been busy preparing for Advent in the monastery. Greens to arrange for the […]