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Sr. Poore among leaders of new congregation
by Robert Delaney of The Michigan Catholic
Published August 28, 2009
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Members of the newly installed leadership team of the Dominican Sisters of Peace are (from left) Srs. Margaret Ormond (prioress), Gene Poore, Joan Scanlon, Therese Leckert and Gemma Doll. |
Detroit - The new community of Dominican sisters into which the Oxford Dominicans merged on Easter Sunday includes a member of the former Oxford congregation on its five-member leadership team.
Sr. Gene Poore was installed in her new position with the Dominican Sisters of Peace Aug. 8, the feast of St. Dominic, in a ceremony in Columbus, Ohio.
Also installed were the new congregation's prioress, Sr. Margaret Ormond, and the other leadership team members, Srs. Joan Scanlon, Therese Leckert and Gemma Doll.
Sr. Poore was instrumental in the discernment process, begun in 2002, that led to the eventual decision to form a new congregation.
"As a congregation, we have set a framework for our future, committing ourselves to promote justice, foster peace, help the poor, and share the Good News of Jesus in our world," Sr. Poore said.
"We have a palpable energy around these commitments - a new
fire for our mission. I look forward to working with my sisters in the
coming years to live out these and other goals," she added.
Sr. Poore had served as prioress of the Oxford congregation from 2006 until the foundation of the new congregation.
Previously she served in other leadership roles in the Oxford congregation. Other past ministries include teaching, coaching, and campus ministry at various school levels.
In 1992 Sr. Poore became involved with a mission in Jamaica, where each summer since she has helped in providing meals, education, and summer activities to impoverished children in a makeshift squatter neighborhood.
The Oxford Domincans are probably best known for their sponsorship of the Lourdes campus in Waterford Township, with its nursing home, assisted living senior housing and Alzheimer's facilities, and also for its retreat center in Oxford.
Besides the Oxford Dominicans - formally the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima - the congregations that joined to form the Dominican Sisters of Peace were the Congregation of St. Mary (New Orleans, La.); Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs (Columbus, Ohio); Dominican Sisters of Great Bend, Kansas; Dominicans of St. Catharine (St. Catharine, Ky.); Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic (New Orleans, La.); and the Sisters of St. Dominic of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Akron, Ohio).
A pontifical institute, the new Columbus-headquartered congregation includes more than 650 sisters serving in 29 states and in Honduras, Nigeria, Peru, Tanzania, and Vietnam, with more than 500 associates (women and men who partner in mission with the sisters).
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