We Dominican Sisters of Adrian are members of the Order of Preachers. We preach the Good News of God’s love to the world through our ministries and our lives. One of our mottos is “To contemplate and share the fruits of contemplation.” We strive to base our lives on the four foundations of Dominican life: prayer, study, community and ministry/preaching. Our roots go back to St. Dominic 800 years ago. We came to Adrian, Michigan, in 1879. We are currently around 600 members and minister in many places in the United States as well as the Dominican Republic, Norway and the Philippines. Our actual ministries take many forms. For example, we serve as teachers, lawyers, social workers, health care workers, parish pastoral ministers, chaplains, artists, and advocates for those in our world who are suffering, including our whole Earth community. In whatever we do, we aim to “seek truth, make peace, and reverence life.”