Catalog of Ministries
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Daughters of Charity International Project Services (DCIPS)
Biography
Daughters of Charity International Project Services (DCIPS)
was established to help the Sisters in developing countries to carry out their mission of service to those who are poor.
DCIPS facilitates international funding and other resources, and develops relationships that support Daughter of Charity projects that minimize human suffering and foster sustainable solutions to global poverty
at the local level.
June 23, 2011
DC Catholic Farming Network
Biography
The DC Catholic Farming Network partners with local Catholic parishes to establish a network of
grant-funded urban farms on Archdiocese-controlled properties. The farms fulfill the role of
offering spiritual and bodily nourishment to God’s children.
De La Salle Blackfeet School
Biography
De La Salle Blackfeet School is committed to providing a quality, innovative and faith-based education to empower its students to become successful learners and able participants in the shaping of their community.
DeMatha Catholic High School
Biography
Mission: DeMatha Catholic High School is a college preparatory institution dedicated for young men in the Trinitarian tradition. DeMatha’s historic and ongoing mission is to serve students of differing abilities, interests, and backgrounds from the culturally rich and diverse greater Washington Metropolitan area. Faculty and staff work to help young men develop a way of life characterized by attention to scholarship, dedication to moral principles, devotion to hard work, and the awareness of the need to serve others. Through a broad-based and rigorous curriculum, numerous opportunities for spiritual growth, a wide range of co-curricular opportunities, and a comprehensive service program, DeMatha cultivates a respect for other people that finds it most complete expression in students who become gentlemen and scholars.
Depaul USA. Inc
Biography
Depaul USA’s mission is to offer homeless and disadvantaged people the opportunity to fulfill their potential and move towards an independent and positive future. Everyone should have a place to call home and a stake in their community. The strategic goal of Depaul USA is to develop its services into a national response to homelessness. Depaul USA now has programs in four cities, Philadelphia, Macon, GA, New Orleans and St. Louis, that service over 2,000 homeless men and women through resource centers, individuals case management, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and respite care. Depaul USA embraces the Vincentian Values that espouse: taking action; serving the poorest of the poor; being non-judgmental; being innovative; and taking risks.
Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Province of St Therese of Oklahoma
Biography
The Discalced Carmelite Friars of the Province of St. Therese are a community of men-priests and religious brothers-serving the Church through a life of contemplative prayer. In our apostolic work, we also strive to foster growth in the spiritual life, helping women and men to grow in friendship with God and with neighbor.
Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ
Biography
The Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ is a Franciscan Religious community. Called to witness to the Gospel, they seek to draw all people into a personal relationship with Jesus through the transforming power and gifts of the Holy Spirit. This flows from a deep life of prayer, praise and on-going conversion in loving commitment to one another.
Dismas Ministry
Biography
Dismas Ministry supports the spiritual rehabilitation of the incarcerated by providing Catholic faith, scripture and prayer resources free of charge to prisoners and chaplains nationwide.
Divine Mercy Academy
Biography
Guided by the wisdom of our patron, Pope St. John Paul II, our Mission is to partner with parents in their roles as the primary educators of their children, so as to foster a love for truth, beauty goodness and learning by providing students with a foundation of wisdom and virtue, so that they may bear witness to the Kingdom of God. We desire to form disciples of Jesus Christ, who are made free to realize their full potential by living joyfully in accordance with the truth revealed by God through nature and the Catholic Church. We do this by providing a challenging and integrated Catholic liberal arts education.
Dominican College
Biography
The aim of Dominican College is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the College is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.
Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the College maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The college empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.
Dominican College is dedicated to the principle that its educational programs and services must be both challenging and supportive, distinguished both by high standards and by attention to the needs and potential of the individual student. Affirmed and engaged by these standards and values, graduates are prepared for purposeful lives and for the careers and professions they choose to pursue.
Dominican Home Health Agency, Inc.
Biography
Mission Statement: To provide quality nursing care and related services to the sick in their homes. We give priority to the poor, foster the integrity of family life and assist the elderly and chronically ill to stay at home. We provide these services without regard to the origin, creed or other status of the individual. We will protect the life of all people. We are prepared to adapt to the changing needs of the community and those we serve.
Dominican Literacy Center, Aurora
Biography
The mission of the Dominican Literacy Center is to provide opportunities for women to receive individual tutoring in reading, writing and speaking English. Our mission also includes providing citizenship classes for women and men who are studying to become new U.S. citizens. We provide these opportunities through individual tutoring by trained volunteers within the neighborhood setting. The Dominican Literacy Center believes in empowerment through education, and in the dignity of each individual person.
Dominican Sisters of Peace
Biography
Called by the Spirit and formed as women of the Church within the vibrant tradition of the Order of Preachers, we, Dominican Sisters of Peace, are sent by God to be the Holy Preaching as we praise, we bless, and we preach the liberating truth of the Gospel of Jesus. Our call to be peace, to build peace, and to preach peace requires that we read the signs of our times and interpret them faithfully in the light of the Gospel.
Dominican Youth Movement USA
Biography
The Dominican Youth Movement USA connects today’s youth and young adults to the Dominican tradition
of preaching and the participant’s own call to preach. Through our programs and workshops that
offer a time, place, and context for establishing impactful relations, we build faith and
strengthen their commitment to God, community, family, preaching, social, justice and the Dominican
Order.
Vision:
The Dominican Youth Movement USA reinforces and expands the Dominican Charism to Christian youth
and young adults; creating future leaders of the Church who will preach the Good News as they
share, explore, and integrate their faith with family, community and the world.
Values Statement:
At the core of Dominican Life are the Dominican values of prayer, study, community and ministry.
The
Dominican Youth Movement USA guides our youth and young adults through our values:
• Prayer- the heart of a spiritual life.
• Study-understanding that truth is never complete and there is always more to know and
understand.
• Community- staying connected to God, our individual lives and the world around us.
• Ministry- integrating a life of service with a life of faith, preaching through word and action.
Donnelly College
Biography
Mission: Donnelly College is a Catholic institution of higher education that seeks to continue the mission of Jesus Christ in our time by making the love of God tangible in our world. Specifically, the mission of Donnelly College is to provide education and community services with personal concern for the needs and abilities of each student, especially those who might not otherwise be served.
Drexel Newman Center
Biography
“We are an apostolic Catholic community entrusted to Mary, working with the university community and families to live a full Christian Life as missionary disciples through encountering Christ, growing in their faith and their reconciliation with God and themselves, and sending them to serve, from one heart to another.”
Durham Nativity School (Durham, NC)
Biography
The mission of Durham Nativity School (DNS) is based on the highly successful model of other Nativity network schools (www.nativitynetwork.org) across the country û to help break the cycle of poverty through a quality middle school education that will help empower each child to reach their potential. DNS is committed to providing an academically rigorous academic program to
socio-economically and disadvantaged boys who might not otherwise have access to such quality education.
The school provides the boys with emotional, social, moral and intellectual support through small classes and an extended school day and school year. Our faculty works to help our students become young men ready for the rigors of college preparatory high schools and, eventually, colleges.