Today, July 22, is the Feast Day of Mother Caroline Friess. This archival piece looks at the many travel difficulties she encountered as she led the expansion of the School Sisters of Notre Dame across North America.
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Dr. Charlene Zeisset, a School Sister of Notre Dame and the physician who is the liaison to the project, responded matter-of-factly when asked if the sisters who donated their brains had seen anything extraordinary about their gift, saying that they were pretty humble about the project. "We are educators, in whatever we do. It was a way that the sisters could continue their ministry of education."
In his book Let Us Dream, Pope Francis tells us that "To come out of this crisis better, we have to see clearly, choose well, and act right. ... We must redesign the economy so that it can offer every person access to a dignified existence while protecting and regenerating the natural world."
The Villa Notre Dame Community invites you to join us on July 31st at the Villa to Celebrate our Journey. From its humble beginnings to its noble end, Villa Notre Dame has been our home for over 60 years.
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company has separated its multimillion-dollar investment portfolio from financial holdings in the fossil fuel sector.
“Why be a pilgrim still?” This question from Raphael Considine’s poem “Trasna” echoed through Thresholds, the annual meeting of associate area coordinators, held on June 14 and 15 via Zoom.
On June 12, 2021, the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) Central Pacific Province (CP) celebrates its 10th anniversary. This celebration marks 10 years since the Dallas, Mankato, Milwaukee and St. Louis Provinces came together to become one. Provincial Leader, Sister Debra Sciano, remembers the long process of joining four provinces together.
Becoming a Laudato Si’ Congregation invites us all to embark on a seven-year journey toward Integral Ecology, a holistic perspective and strategy to promote both a flourishing earth and a flourishing human community.
On May 15, 2021, archival documents from the Institute of Notre Dame (IND) arrived safe and sound at their new home at the School Sisters of Notre Dame's North American Archives (NAA) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
We the 2020 – 2021 Jubilarians, express our overflowing GRATITUDE! Welling up in our hearts for God’s faithfulness!
The Jubilarians of 2020, who were unable to have their traditional provincial Jubilee ceremony at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton last May, gathered on Zoom last weekend with the Jubilarians of 2021 to celebrate their milestone years as School Sisters of Notre Dame. The theme was “Deep Gratitude for God’s Faithfulness.”
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada, and Asian American and Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States. This month take time to reflect upon and celebrate SSNDs in Japan and Guam and how much they have enriched our congregation!
August 26 was the Feast Day for Our Lady of Good Counsel. Our Lady of Good Counsel is one of the many titles given to Mary. Titles like Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima were given as the result of a Marian apparition. Our Lady of Good Counsel was a title given after a Marian miracle that took place in Italy during the 15th century.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame find that the guilty verdict is an important step in uprooting racism from our hearts and to bringing a sense of justice to people around the nation.
The use of new scientific techniques made it possible for COVID vaccines to be developed, tested, and produced at a record pace. As with any new scientific discovery, the ethical questions about the research must examine whether it will promote our values or our vices.
This weeks poem is by Mary Enda Hughes, SSND
Even from here, in weakness,
I must be skilled,
Must say without words
“I am the one you knew.”
And you must summon wordlessly,
the same, hold back your eyes
that ask, “Do you know me?”
As part of the continuing celebration of the Caroline Center's 25th Anniversary, they have announced their first SHERO awards Sister Patricia McLaughlin & Sister Kathleen Feeley!
This weeks poem is by Sr Delia Calis, SSND
Mother Theresa Woman of Faith
Silent midnight hours
root faith deep
In her loving heart.
The Letters of Mary Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger are now available on the Gerhardinger website!
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