Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose

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If I do risky sports and pray for safety, is that like testing God?

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In this Random Nun Clip, we talk about taking risks, praying for safety, and testing God. Hear the full Ask Sister episode at AS074. 

IGF055 In Good Faith with Sister Trish Doan, Refugee

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Sister Trish Doan is a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange, who is completing her master’s degree in theology. She is an engineer, a restaurateur, an immigration professional—and a former refugee who escaped from Vietnam as an unaccompanied minor. Her vocation journey is matched by her family’s miraculous decade-long separation, and eventual reunion. Today Sister Trish speaks with us about her years-long journey from Vietnam to the US and how she adjusted to the culture of her new home country.  If you missed last week’s episode, click to hear about the journey of discernment that eventually brought Sister Trish to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange — a community right in her own back yard.

Sr Trish and her family at her vows ceremony

Imagination and Snow Creatures

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I had been doing various tasks around the convent and happened to look out from the dining room. Lo and behold this creature greeted me.

Making Life and Death Pacts with Strangers

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As I look in my helmet mirror at the traffic coming behind me, feel the WHOOSH of the car driving by so close, and scan the horizon for cars turning off or onto the road, I am acutely aware that my life is in the hands of total strangers.