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Our Sisters Have Been Transforming Lives for 185 Years
In honor of 185 years of ministry, reflections, essays and articles by and about sisters are featured here daily throughout the year. We invite you to share a memory or note about how SSND has touched your life. Please click for more. -
185 Years of Faith
As we celebrate the 185th year of the founding of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. May each one of us be inspired to rededicate our lives to the charism imparted to us by our foundress, Mother Theresa of Jesus. May we as a province and as a congregation faithfully follow the example of Mother Theresa who placed her trust and hope in God.
News
On Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 Halton Catholic Children‘s Education Foundation held its annual Evening with Bishop Crosby. The event was marked by great enthusiasm and high spirit.
Twice a year the School Sisters of Notre Dame award grants to organizations working for justice. These groups benefit people, mostly women and children, caught in poverty, human rights abuses, or environmental devastation.
Mother Almeda sent a circular to the missions in late fall of 1936, asking whether any candidates or young sisters would like to go to North or South America. Here was my chance. I might be a missionary after all, although it would not be in Africa.
Events
In honor of the 185th Anniversary of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, we challenge you to help reach our goal of $185,000 to support care for our aging sisters and our transformative educational ministries. To accept the challenge, click here.
Mission in Action
As a child, Frances Cabrini dreamed of going to China or India as a missionary, but the Sisters who educated her considered her health too fragile to accept her into their congregation. So Frances started her own school and an orphanage and eventually, with seven other women, started her own community, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1880.
Being protected, cared for, loved are essential to the life of the human being. We need to welcome our children, with all love in our hearts, and to take good care of them, because they are for us signs of joy, blessing, grace and the presence of God in our midst.
Discovering a call to a particular life commitment takes time. It requires honesty with ourselves about our gifts and talents, inclinations and deepest desires. The more we get to know ourselves, the better we are at detecting God’s movement within our hearts.
