What happens when you have a Holy Hour every month to celebrate your 800th anniversary and invite people from all walks of life to participate?

Celebration With Surprises is the story of just what happened at the Monastery of the Mother of God, West Springfield, Massachusetts. It was year of surprising graces, surprising encounters and surprising joys!
Each month the nuns would have a different theme for their Rosary Holy Hour. One month it would be Communications, another month Medical Personnal, Military, etc. Sr. Mary of the Sacred Heart would get on the phone and invite people from these different professions and ask them to lead the Rosary and meet the nuns and the people who participated. In short, it was an amazing year of grace!

Weaving this story with the story of the history of the Nuns of the Order of Preachers, Sr. Mary of the Sacred Heart has produced a fascinating book. Even if you don’t know all the people mentioned it doesn’t matter. It is a story that warms your heart and shows to you the work of God’s grace in the most ordinary and extraordinary circumstances!

“This book is rich with the love of so many people and their stories in life, then God graces them with his governing love. You can see when people trust in Jesus’s love for them nothing is impossible. Your discriptive writing leaves visuals in ones head plus, you write in a way which is joyful and humorous. I’m anxious to continue reading your wonderful adventure of the many stories and witnesses from God’s people.”-James Perkins

About Sr. Mary of the Sacred Heart Sawicki, O.P.

Sr. Mary of the Sacred Heart Sawicki has been a member of the West Springfield, Mass. Dominican Nuns since 1964. She contributed an essay to the book, Vocation in Black and White: Dominican Contemplative Nuns Tell How God Called Them. She is the editor of the American version of www.praedicare.com web site and has participated in the Dominican Theological Formation Program Studies. Sister Sacred Heart has served as treasurer for the Conference of Nuns of the Order of Preachers and provides technical support for her community. As a former softball catcher, she is an avid Red Sox fan.

SKU:

CWS

ISBN-10:

1432745433

Binding:

Softcover

Page Count:

368

Pubication Date:

January 2010

Publisher:

Outskirts Press, Boston, MA