Inspired by the charism of St. Dominic, our prayer life comes first so that our apostolate overflows from a contemplation nourished before the Eucharist. Shortly after their canonical establishment, God found work for his new devoted Sisters to carry out. An invitation came from Bishop Carl F. Mengeling to teach in the Diocese of Lansing, and the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist moved to the Midwest. Mr. Thomas Monaghan, the Catholic entrepreneur famous for Domino's Pizza and the Catholic business association Legatus, generously welcomed the Sisters, and asked them to administer and staff Spiritus Sanctus Academy, a new adventure in Catholic education sponsored by the Domino Foundation. Spiritus Sanctus schools are committed to achieving the highest excellence in human and intellectual formation, as well as to supplying an unequivocal witness to Catholic truth and practice.
Plans call for a chapel to stand at the center of each school house unit.
Daily Mass, Eucharistic Adoration on First Fridays, and an emphasis on the Family Rosary make these schools ideal places for the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist to fulfill their vision of the new evangelization. Besides Spiritus Sanctus schools, the Sisters of Mary are interested in assisting the home schooling endeavors in some manner in the future. They will also support the Catholic Evidence Guild, an outreach effort to students enrolled at the University of Michigan. In keeping with one of the main themes of the New Evangelization, the Sisters give individual and corporate witness to the Gospel of Life. On August 22nd, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, new candidates were received into the community.