Congregational News
Thanksgiving Holiday
Our Congregational Staff will be celebrating Thanksgiving with their families on Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29. There will be no OPPeace News on November 29. The OPPeace News will resume on Monday, December 2.

Dominican Ordo
We are grateful to our Sisters from the DSC for sending us two versions of the new 2025 Dominican Praise Ordo. Click here for the 5" x 7" Short Ordo. Click here for the 8.5" x 11" Long Ordo. Both will also be posted on the Private Pages. 

Peace & Justice Update
For Land Justice Workshop Attendees
It was truly an honor for our LJF team to be with you all online this past weekend. We are grateful for your openness and energy. As promised, we are sending along links and attachments for your continued learning, as well as a feedback survey, which we would greatly appreciate your participation in!

If we have not sent something that you were hoping to receive, let Brenna know by emailing brenna@landjust​icefutures.org.​

Feedback Survey
Please take a moment in the next day or two to fill out this Feedback Survey so we can learn best how to continue to support your community on this land justice journey!

Further Resources from Land Justice Futures
Articles

• Summary of Colonization Narrative
• Summary of Opening Talk
• Summary of Colonization Narrative
• Examples of Land Justice in Action: Models and Tools
• Roadmap to Land Justice
• Land Justice is a Creative Process: 12 Examples, an article by Brittany Koteles

Online Resources

• Mother Law: A Prophetic Call to Action: An LJF Webinar introducing a new movement to be "Complicit No More" with the Doctrine of Discovery
• Find recordings of inspirational case studies of land justice on our LJF Video Library

These resources will also be included on our Private Pages.

Vocations Team Event and News
"Zoom and See" Retreat
The Vocations team will host a "Zoom and See Discernment Retreat” February 7-9, 2025 for single Catholic women 18 to 45 interested in discerning a call to religious life. We ask for your prayers that discerning women will sign up to attend this program and for our team as we prepare for the retreat.  

The Vocations team will host a "Zoom and See Discernment Retreat” February 7-9, 2025 for single Catholic women 18 to 45 interested in discerning a call to religious life. We ask for your prayers that discerning women will sign up to attend this program and for our team as we prepare for the retreat.  

Please help us promote this retreat by:

1. copying and pasting our retreat flyer link to your social media accounts:  https://oppeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Zoom-See-Flyer.pdf
2. sending the above link to your parishes and ask the administrators to post it on the parish social media accounts.
3. printing the flyer to take to your parish or ministry site and post it in a prominent place.
4. notifying Mary Ellen George at maryellen.george@oppeace.org of a parish that would be good for us to reach out to personally

Please get in touch with Sr. Mai-dung Nguyen if you have any questions.

Horizon Magazine Availability
The Vocations team is excited to share that we have arranged for each of our Motherhouses to receive the HORIZON magazine, an award-winning quarterly journal published by the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) with timely articles on all aspects of vocation ministry and related topics within religious life. It is available now in the Motherhouses' libraries.

Death In Our Family
Please pray for the family of Sr Mary Michaeline Green (Metairie, LA, michaeline.gree​n@oppeace.org). Her sister, Carol Ann Boudreaux, died this past Friday evening.  Please keep Carol in your prayers, as well as Sr. Michaeline and her whole family.

Prayer Requests

• Sr. Teresa Tuite (Columbus OH, Teresa.Tuite@o​ppeace.org) requests prayer for her family. Her nephew-in-law Mike Brogan, age 56, died at home after a long battle with a brain tumor. Please especially pray for his wife Lisa and their two adult children Haley (Jordan) and Josh (Gretchen).
• Sr. Marilyn Pierson (St. Catharine, KY, marilyn.pierso​n@oppeace.org) asks for prayer for two friends of her niece, Janet. Please pray for Katie Bendon, whose brother was just diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer. Also please remember in prayer Katie Hyslop. Her stepbrother died of a massive heart attack while snorkeling in Belize because there was no health care nearby to help him, and on November 19th her ex-husband's daughter had a double mastectomy due to breast cancer.