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On October 18, the Saturday after the Canadian Thanksgiving, 13 SSND Associates in Southern Ontario renewed their covenant, while Sybil Percy made her first covenant. We were delighted to be able to gather in person with the Sisters in Waterdown!
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Earlier in the Fall, Sisters, Associates, and colleagues were invited to make a Pilgrimage of Hope during this Jubilee Year. It all began with Pope Francis’s invitation to encounter Christ in creation and restore our relationships with God, creation, and one another.
Just 10 days after Parliament resumed this September, members of the Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology (ORCIE) were already knocking on doors on Parliament Hill, bringing faith-filled urgency to the climate conversation.

“What matters is that you serve God not as much as you want, but as much as is possible for you.”

Blessed Mary Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger Foundress, School Sisters of Notre Dame