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We Celebrate the 10 year Anniversary of the Province of Africa!

We celebrate 10 years since the founding of the Province of Africa! Congratulations to our Sisters on this milestone. We give sincere thanks for their vibrant and important contributions in carrying on the tradition of Blessed Theresa to lift up others through education.

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Perpetual Profession of Sister Joan Pikiell

Our province and our congregation celebrated the perpetual profession of Sister Joan Pikiell at the Villa Notre Dame Chapel in Wilton, CT. Thank you to Sister Betty Koehn for providing her photos from this special day.

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Our New Community at Stella Maris

Sisters from around the province have been asking how our new community at Stella Maris is doing. Although there were limited opportunities to document the moves because of COVID, Sister Betty Koehn has been kind enough to share her photos from the transition.

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Thank You From the 2020 and 2021 Jubilarians!

We the 2020 – 2021 Jubilarians, express our overflowing GRATITUDE! Welling up in our hearts for God’s faithfulness!

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Centenarian Sister Aveline Smith

Variety is the spice of life... and it might well be the secret of the life of Sister Aveline Smith, who celebrates 100 years of life today May 11th! Happy Birthday, Sister!

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Happy 100th Birthday to Sister Bernice Volk!

On March 31 the Notre Dame Convent community celebrated Sister Bernice Volk’s 100th birthday!

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Catholic Sisters Week is Every Week!

While the official Catholic Sisters Week may be over, every week is Catholic Sisters Week to us!

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Celebrating Sister Xavier Linz on her 100th birthday

"The Lord arranged it beautifully. He didn't ask me about it - it just happened." Sister Xavier Linz was surrounded by sisters and family last weekend as she celebrated her 100th birthday.

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What Makes Us One

With great fondness, I periodically think about Assembly Weekends in the former Baltimore Province when I was a postulant in the mid-1980s and we had an SSND version of "Saturday Night Live!" I've been imagining how wonderful it might be to experience again such engagement and stimulation at this time of our lives.

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We Remember, Celebrate, Bless and are Blessed!

Our Sisters in Canada are embracing a particular bittersweet reality as we let go of our former Canadian Province Motherhouse. As long as we have been futuring that reality, uppermost in our hearts has been the question, “What will happen to our cemetery?"

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