In the providential time of grace following the Second Vatican Council and leading up to the new Millennium, God called our community into being under the Pontificate of Pope John Paul the Great. Deeply attuned to the needs of the church today, our community is familiar with many rooftops from which to proclaim the Gospel. It is only through our strong contemplative life that we have the strength to go out to all the world, quite literally, well aware of the admonition of Saint Dominic that grain is meant to be scattered.

While we continue the great Dominican tradition of teaching in schools around the country, we are also to be found proclaiming Christ in sundry ways all over the country: our television show, Truth in the Heart airs regularly on EWTN, we visit dozens of college campuses per year, and we send Sisters out every summer to parishes for catechesis camps.

In addition to all of this, our community remains open to following the call to evangelize wherever it may lead us. It is an exciting time to be in the Church, for, as our Holy Father Pope Benedict said in an address to catechists, “New evangelization means: … to dare, once again and with the humility of the small grain, to leave up to God the when and how it will grow.”