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Snaps of our Sisters from the Mission Area of South Africa who are deliberating and planning for the future at their 23rd Mission Area Chapter being held at Springfield, Cape Town. Read More

Both Jesus and Paul are doing what all great men and women do when they are either departing from their followers or dying – they have their final say. This can be partly an apologia pro vita sua, summing up what their life has been about and what has motivated it. Such a... Read More

Read below an article in The Southern Cross (Southern Africa’s Catholic Weekly) by Erin Carelse. Cabra Dominican Sisters: Celebrate 150 Years with them! Read More

This is the Vocation story of Sr Margaret Kelly O.P, a Cabra Dominican Sister, who lives and works in South Africa.  Sr Margaret is passionate about justice and peace issues.  She has served as Mission Area Prioress of South Africa in years gone by and she has also served as a... Read More

This is the Vocation Story of Sr Francis Cosgrove, a Cabra Dominican Missionary Sister, living and working in South Africa.  Sr Francis specialises in Spiritual Direction and gives guided Retreats to individuals. MY VOCATION STORY I give thanks to God for the precious gift of a... Read More

Twenty years on from the end of Apartheid in South Africa,  Sr Martine Pillay recounts the day she cast her vote in Middle Abbey St and how life has changed since Sr Martine Pillay, a Dominican Sister based in South Africa recalls meeting a man on a plane who explained to her... Read More

Teaching experience has given the Sisters in South Africa the opportunity to help people in many varied ways.  Funds had to be monitored and evaluated on a constant basis.  These were vital funds that had been accessed to help increase community level services to reach orphans... Read More

Photograph of Srs Marian, Martine and Helen Mary is in St Michael’s Covent Rondebosch taken at a Concert given by Springfield school children. Evening Prayer, Cathedral, Cape Town   This year 2013,as we know, was designated by Pope Benedict XVI as a Year of... Read More

WELCOME: On 7 September 1863 the mail vessel “Saxon” sailed slowly into Table Bay – the realization of Bishop Patrick Raymund Griffith’s dream. History was in the making as the first six Irish Dominican Sisters stepped ashore in South Africa. They had responded to an appeal... Read More

Day three of celebrations consisted of school mass where children from 23 schools participated. The celebrant was Archbishop Stephen Brislin and  Fr Hugh O’Connor, Vicar for Catholic Education preached the homily.   Read More