News

Four teachers from our sponsored ministry Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest, New Jersey, traveled to Douglas, Arizona, Feb. 17-22, for an immersion experience with School Sisters of Notre Dame who minister on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Congratulations to AHA student Kait Lack! “I am very excited to have the opportunity to experience the World Championship of Dance with the Rutgers Dance Team."
As a refugee forced to flee from conflict Dr. Mireille Twayigira’s story is one of survival and resilience. She speaks as part of the Full of Hope Tour
Sisters Mary Goretty Aboge from Gambia, Monika Ulrik from Hungary, Teresinha Dorigon from Brazil and Sharon Kanis from our province recently returned from a two-week seminar in Rome on interculturality.
Designated by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Union of Superiors General, the International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking invites us to advocacy and remembrance for victims and survivors.
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She became renowned for her refusal to change bus seats to allow a white person to sit.
Elm Grove, Wisconsin was the place to be January 19 – 21. Six inches of snow, temps below 0 and a Wolf Blood Moon arising. Amidst all that, the Initial Personal Development in Community Committee had a fruitful meeting.
During Black History Month, we celebrate the promotion of positive values of African American leadership through advocacy, through professional life, and through the arts.
In 2017, the School Sisters of Notre Dame consolidated their eight former provincial archival collections into one archive – the School Sisters of Notre Dame North American Archives.
SHARE is organizing a delegation to Honduras from March 19-24, 2019. They are currently recruiting people of faith and others interested in learning more about root causes to join them.
“Our challenge is to love people we serve and to have them feel this love. If they do not feel our love, I believe that our love is flawed.”
Thank you to Sister Barbara Brumleve, SSND, for sharing with us these wonderful action items and historical SSND tidbits from NDP's January Mission Integration Bulletin.
Sr. Wendy Beckett, the contemplative who became an unlikely television celebrity after hosting art programs on BBC and American public television throughout the 1990s, died Dec. 26 at a care facility near the Carmelite monastery in Quidenham, England, where she lived in a trailer hermitage. She was 88.

Loving God, journey with me this year
so that I may feel your presence, abide in your forgiveness,
grow in your strength, and dwell in your love. (Openings)
 

Dear Sisters, Associates and Colleagues,

'Twas an evening in December In North Riverside Town, That a group of 8 sisters Gathered around
Furthering our commitment to ecological responsibility we turned on our two solar arrays for the first time on Dec 17!
Every two to three years a Shalom International Meeting is held for the purposes of dialogue, planning and evaluation. This year's meeting was held in Munich, Germany, in October.
The liturgical season we call ADVENT has a way, if we allow it, of drawing us into a special dimension of time where despite the noise around us, our spirits and hearts are drawn inward. By Sister Arlene Flaherty
From November 9-11 the JPIC department and faculty members from AHA, IND and NDP held a Forum at Villa Notre Dame for a selected group of students to discuss the topic of gun violence.
Bishop Crosby
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.