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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.

In September, the Baltimore Ravens and the Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism announced that Sisters Academy of Baltimore was one of this year’s recipients of the 19th Annual Honor Rows Program presented by M&T Bank.

Sadly, yet another mass shooting in our country... we are heartbroken for everyone who has been touched by this event, and for all of us in the US as we grapple with this terrible affliction of gun violence. Take steps to demand change.
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Sisters at Notre Dame Convent in Waterdown, Ontario joined together in a ritual of Land Acknowledgement on June 27, 2018 recognizing that the land on which they live, celebrate, and pray together is the traditional territory of the Haudensaunee and Anishenaabe First Nations of Canada.

Join us May 7, 2019, 5:30pm at the Columbus Gardens in Perry Hall, Maryland to reminisce, renew friendships with Sisters and classmates, and hear what SSND is doing today, as we celebrate our 185th year as a congregation.
Archives task force members Sister Charlaine Fill from the Atlantic-Midwest Province and Sisters Mary Ann Kuttner and Mary Kay Ash from the Central Pacific Province connected with a piece of the past on Tuesday, September 18.
Oktoberfest!
Our final drawing of the Oktoberfest 2018 raffle took place today, Friday, October 26, 2018. Check out the winners! Thank you to all that bought tickets!
On Foundation Day, a member of our Vocations team looks forward, sharing her reflection on the future of the congregation.
"On this International Day of the Girl, let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms and reach her full potential." — UN Secretary-General António Guterres