Inventory

Living Situation: Benincasa, House of Discernment

Name: Of Italian origin. Literally "house of welcome." The surname of St. Catherine of Siena, Dominican Saint.

Location: -Marywood Campus, home of the Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters
-Aquinata Hall, former nursing home for elderly nuns, connected to other Marywood buildings by a series of underground tunnels
-Fort Benincasa, a 10-bdrm hallway in Aquinata with magnetic locking doors. Keys necessary both to enter and to exit. Includes two lockable suites for psychiatric patients and a pharmacy where we store our Hamburger Helper and Cream of Broccoli soup.

Residents: 2 and 1/2 nuns:
-one fan of basketball, beer, and free software downloads from the internet,
recently relocated to Goshen, Indiana to teach at a Mennonite College
-one bubbly and highly political Obama supporter who enjoys camping, Skip Bo, and
talking to strangers
-one enigma who has moved in rugs and a dust-covered keyboard but not yet her
body

1 Aquinas Alum, currently enrolled at U of M online, who loves to bike and hates all social interaction
1 non-Catholic Aquinas student, figuring out what in the world to do with her life
1 fiber optic angel named Angelica

Community Activities: Praying in our La-Z-Boy recliners, eating blueberry pancakes, biking around Reed's Lake, stealing tomatoes, bowling in the hallway, watching SNL.

Mission Statement: Women will one day rule the world!