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The Armenian Genocide came into sharper focus this month, as Academy of the Holy Angels alumna Talin Baghdadlian (’09) and her husband Armen Sahakyan addressed Jennifer Cucchisi’s Advanced Placement History class. They are descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors, and now live and work in Armenia.
Manal extends an enormous debt of gratitude to the School Sisters of Notre Dame for providing her and her family with a home. It would have been hugely difficult to do this resettlement work for a large young family led by a single widowed mother without the Sisters' support.
In her new role, Susan will be taking responsibility for the Friday AMSSND newsletter starting January 13. She will also be interviewing Sisters for stories for our website, especially this year's Jubilarians.
Sister Theu Nguyen, FMSR and Sister Len Bui, FMSR, two Vietnamese Sisters living in community with SSNDs at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore, took their Perpetual Vows on Dec. 31, 2022, at Most Precious Blood Church in New Jersey.
For many it is a privilege to accompany a person you love through their final days. Sister Maureen Clancy of Chicago felt this way when she agreed to be the POAHC agent for a Sister with whom she had lived in community in the past.
Kaliq Hunter Simms has been named the second president of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, effective July 1, 2023. In this position, Simms will lead the school as it continues to provide an excellent education to middle school girls who live primarily in Southwest Baltimore.
COP 15 Agreement Photo Credit Julian Haber UN Biodiveristy
Good News! Countries around the world have cemented a deal to safeguard nature — and for the first time, the agreement sets quantitative biodiversity targets!
Georgette “Gigi” Ochs and Natalie Yoo are the Academy of the Holy Angels' candidates for the 2023 New Jersey Scholars Program. NJSP is a highly-selective, five-week summer program for rising high school seniors. AHA’s nominees will now begin the rigorous statewide application process.
Chapter 2150 of the Modern Music Masters National Honor Society has accepted 22 top-flight musicians from the Academy of the Holy Angels. The Tri-M induction, which was held December 2, recognized each new member’s musical accomplishments, scholarship, character, leadership, and service to others.
The North American Vocation Team invited Sisters to join them for a “Cultivation Conversation” focused on vocations, accompaniment and the life of the SSND community. Together they considered their gift/attractiveness as SSND; what accompaniment of young people might look like individually and communally at this time in light of their needs and our current realities.
Join ISN and the Kino Border Initiative from December 16-24 in a daily virtual experience of music, prayer, reflection, and action as they journey with Holy Families on the Journey of Hope.
The Catholic Sisters Haiti Collaborative for Community Empowerment received a $1.99 million grant from The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to support economic and human development services to women, children, and families in rural and marginalized areas of Haiti. The School Sisters of Notre Dame Atlantic-Midwest Province will receive $301,814 from the grant to expand their ongoing partnership with Beyond Borders in Haiti.
The Generalate Community prays daily during Advent for a particular province, group, or global concern. Each member of the Generalate Community composes a prayer for an intention and prays it on the specified day during the Eucharistic celebration.
“Pups4Patriots™ is important to me because it focuses on an issue that isn't as addressed or recognized by the general public,” said Angels for Veterans leader Reilly Guy. “It is an organization that finds and trains dogs to become service dogs to aid veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injury."
On this Day in 1985, Pope John Paul II declared our foundress Mary Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger Blessed! Learn more about her incredible life in an interactive storybook.
The Sisters at Stella Maris had a joyous time preparing a Thanksgiving basket to be donated to Assisi House in Fells Point.
On November 11, NDP faculty, staff, students, families, friends, and representatives of the Middle States Association (MSA) on Elementary and Secondary Education Commissions attended NDP’s Sustaining Excellence Colloquium, which represents the mid-point in the school’s seven-year MSA reaccreditation process.
On each day of COP27, you are invited to pray in solidarity with the whole Earth community and, in a special way, with the Catholic Sisters, Brothers, priests, and other faith leaders who will be advocating for environmental justice in the UN proceedings on the Sinai Peninsula.
On Halloween, residents of The Watermark enjoyed a well-attended Halloween party and Sing-Along, accompanied by piano and saxophone. The Sisters at Stella Maris also had a Halloween celebration. They dressed in costumes, played games, and enjoyed Halloween candy, pumpkin cookies, and a pumpkin cake.
In August of 2021, the School Sisters of Notre Dame living at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton engaged in a significant transition by moving into a senior living facility, The Watermark, in Bridgeport CT. Residents expressing an interest in getting to know more about us as a congregation. This Foundation Day, the Sisters invited residents and staff to a presentation on the Story of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.