Our Sisters

School Sisters of Notre Dame continue to live the vision of Foundress Blessed Theresa Gerhardinger in a variety of ways. Our sisters share the stories of their work and ministry.

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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Celebrating Sister Marie Dolores and the Schneggenburger family

Sister Marie Dolores is one of 11 siblings born in Buffalo, N.Y. Of the 11, Sister Marie Dolores, four of her sisters, and one brother entered religious life, with all five sisters becoming SSNDs!

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Lourdes Sisters on the Journey to Ozanam

This week, Sisters from Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, CT are moving to Ozanam Hall in Bayside, NY. We wish them all the best in their new mission and community! Please keep them in your prayers.

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Journey to Ozanam

Here is just a glimpse of the many photos taken as the Sisters in Lourdes prepared to set up on their new mission in Ozanam Hall in New York. A reception was held on Friday, September 20 to say farewell (for now) and wish them well. The moves started on Monday, September 23, with five Sisters moving each day.

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In the year of jubilee, return to your ancestral home

Sr. Barbara Valuckas, a regular contributor to the Global Sisters Report, recounts her reconnection and work in her ancestral home of Lithuania.

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Restoring Human Dignity

An amazing chain of events began when Roz Spruill “wanted to be enlightened.” Her enlightenment spread from Baltimore to McAllen, Texas, to the Comunidad Enlaces de Esperanza in Arizona, and eventually to children on the Texas and Arizona borders!

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Rochester Celebrates 185 Years!

On October 28, 2018 the City of Rochester, Office of the Mayor proclaimed it to be School Sisters of Notre Dame Day!

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It's a wonderful life - Celebrating the Nifty Nineties!

Twenty-five nonagenarians from Villa Assumpta and Maria Health Care Center gathered to celebrate their ninth decade on earth together. The sisters, from their privileged vantage point, shared many words of wisdom and insight. When asked how, in a few words, she would sum up her years, Sister Emmanuella said, "It's a wonderful life." Sister Dorothy R. said of being ninety, "I'm 91 but I still feel like 60." Sister Maria Felipe responded, "I'm 90 but can't remember 60! When I think about being 90, I can't believe it."

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