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Take a look at the new reflection added from Caelie about the recent Heritage Pilgrimage, the fourth component to the AMSSND Ministry Formation Program. Journeying to significant SSND sites in Bavaria, Vienna and Rome, pilgrims experience first-hand the foundation, internationality and ministries of SSND.
As the Communications Director for the province, learning SSND history has been a very big part of my job, but reading and writing about where historical events happened cannot compare to experiencing those places in person.
The fourth in our series: We are at a point in time where both our people and our planet face severe challenges, including 40 million people living in situations of modern slavery and people being displaced due to climate change. Can we SSNDs make our finances work for people and the planet?
Following a full day of speakers and Q&A sessions, our group of 24 sisters and colleagues walked through a drizzling cityscape to share a meal and discuss what we as individuals, and members of SSND ministries can do individually and collectively.
We are each on our own spiritual journey, but we have a shared spirit that goes beyond our faith. At an Associate gathering this year, Baltimore Associate Carla Hobson shared the following reflection.
On June 5, 2019, a ceremony was held to mark the completion of Phase II of the Independence Place project, which included the total renovation of the former convent and rectory at Blessed Sacrament Parish.
"Probably the most life-changing event for me was being involved in the New York Marathons over 34 years....In all, I ran 34 New York Marathons and two in Boston."
What if God is changing the way things work right in front of us, and we're not paying attention? What if we're missing the moment we're in and the opportunities of the current time because we are too fixed on the way things were in the past?
An adventurous group of students recently spent a week in the United Kingdom at Oxford University’s Pembroke College and immersed themselves in a “bespoke” course that was tailor-made for them.
The SSND Maryland Celebration event drew 300 people. Thanks to generous donors who sponsored tickets for the Sisters, more than 70 of them were able to attend. 
"Being at a loss for words to express what I wanted to say in this article, I again return to a piece by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés titled 'We Were Made for These Times.'" We need to believe what she suggests." Encouraging words for these times by Sister Jeanne Wingenter, SSND, Central Pacific Province, Shalom-JPIC.
Third in our series: Today, our ministries include recent newcomers from many countries to the United States and Canada.  At the same time, as shareholders, we are prompted to address the support given by many international corporations to the current U.S. immigration policies which are contradictory to our national tradition of welcoming immigrants.
My fellow younger, newer sisters...love religious life, and they believe it will thrive as our congregational stories interweave in new ways.
African Provincial Council
We are grateful for the Spirit’s presence and the generosity of the Sisters of the Province of Africa throughout their election process. The election results are in!
Sister Rosa Maria Troches, spoke at Villa Assumpta about the extreme human rights crisis in Honduras. Since then, religious and lay women and men have taken action in a variety of ways.
The second in our Series: Our Directional Statement calls us to “discern . . . which urgent and critical global concerns we are called to address and we dare to respond boldly in unsuspected ways.” Is water one of the urgent and critical global concerns?

Four Sisters from the Daughters of our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Vietnam have come to live with the Sisters at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore.

Donor Mass
Nearly 150 people attended the Baltimore Donor Appreciation Mass and reception on March 31. Father John McCloskey celebrated the Mass and many participated in the celebration.
Sister Cora Lee Middleton, SSND, who is a registered nurse, recently retired after 35 years of service and commitment to the Tutwiler Clinic at Tallahatchie General Hospital in Charleston, Mississippi.
In Appreciation of Our Donors
Do you know that you are prayed for daily?  You are.  We feel that this is the very best way we can thank you. A favorite saying of the SSNDs is,” May God reward You!”