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December 3, 2024
How are SSND Sisters, Associates, and Sponsored Ministries celebrating Advent? The Season of Advent is here and with it comes a time of hopeful longing, joyful expectation, prayerful penance, and spiritual preparation as we prepare for the coming of Christ. There are many ways to observe this liturgical season—by setting aside extra time for daily prayers or devotional readings, lighting...Read more
May 30, 2024
The SSND Guide to Laudato Si’ Commitment focus for June 3-July 21 is Ecological Economics. The following is a short prayer and a sample list of ways to work toward that goal: God of Wisdom, You gifted us with right judgement and courage. Help us to share the earth’s resources fairly and to use them wisely. Stand with us as...Read more
April 17, 2024
Each year on May 9, School Sisters of Notre Dame celebrate the feast day of our foundress, Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger, who died on this day in 1879. A woman of faith, longing for the oneness for which Jesus Christ was sent and ever seeking God’s will, Blessed Theresa founded the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Bavaria in...Read more
April 15, 2024
The SSND Guide to Laudato Si’ Commitment focus for April 15-June 2 is Response to Cry of the Earth. The following is a short prayer and a sample list of ways to work toward that goal: Creator God, You fill the earth with life. Lead us to live in harmony with your creation. May we respect all life from the...Read more
March 12, 2024
We all know what an ATM is. But an AVM? In summer 2023, the SSND North American Vocation Team (NAVT) invited sisters to consider becoming Area Vocation Ministers (AVM), creating a personalized commitment, a “build your own burger” version of local vocation ministry. We are grateful to the initial group of sisters who responded to this invitation: Sisters Patricia Hammond,...Read more
March 7, 2024
For 52 weeks a year, School Sisters of Notre Dame and all women religious give public witness to Christ through a diversity of ministerial works such as teaching, pastoral care, health care, retreat and spirituality programs, and a multitude of other outreach efforts. They often work on the frontlines of global change, striving to improve various aspects of society, especially...Read more
March 6, 2024
Dr. Maggie Flanagan, MD, director of the Nun Study at UT Health San Antonio, recently received a $100,000 Rising STARs award from the University of Texas Board of Regents to advance research relating to Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. This is exciting news for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who have had a particular connection to this work...Read more
February 29, 2024
In response to Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, School Sisters of Notre Dame are working toward a better future for our Earth in many large and small ways. Here are just a handful: In Sierra Leone, Sister Sarah Tanjo and Sister Vera Owoh are engaging their students in ecological education and action inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’. At...Read more
February 26, 2024
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February 15, 2024
by Sister Limeteze Pierre-Gilles “…some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold” (Matthew 13:8) Recently this hopeful scripture passage came to life for me in a new way. Sister Cathy Bonfield, a teacher at Saint Martha Catholic School in Sarasota, Florida, and Tammi Peters, the school counselor, invited me to their school for...Read more