Foundation Day | School Sisters of Notre Dame

Celebrating Foundation Day 2025!

As we celebrate the founding of our congregation, may we faithfully follow the example of Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger, our foundress, who placed her trust and hope in God. She dared everything and enabled in so many, the belief that God loves us all.

Foundation Day Prayer 2025

Today, we celebrate Foundation Day during the Jubilee Holy Year 2025 with its focus on Pilgrims of Hope. Journeying globally as a universal Church toward Hope calls forth historical and other contemporary examples of Pilgrims of Hope, internationally, nationally and congregationally.

Foundation Day - October 24th 2024

The 2024 Foundation Day Prayer was inspired by the 2024 Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). Have a happy and blessed Foundation Day!

Blessed Theresa Feast Day Prayer 2024

Today we rejoice in the Feast day of Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger and reflect on her legacy as it unfolds in the Call of the 25th General Chapter. Let us listen to the words from You Are Sent and let us pray with Theresa and The Call and Acts of the 25th General Chapter.

Foundation Day Prayer 2023 - Celebrating 190 years

Please join the School Sisters of Notre Dame in prayer and celebration of this year’s Foundation Day. May our prayer in communion with the entire congregation continue to root us in love, faith, and hope!

Foundation Day Festivities at The Watermark

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.

Foundation Day 2022

Foundation Day Video - 2021

We are proud to celebrate 188 years of SSND today! Engaged in a variety of ministries, SSND are educators at heart, believing the world can be changed through the transformation of persons. Regardless of where we come from or how we serve, we are all proud members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. #WeAreSSND

Foundation Day Prayer 2021

On October 24, we will join Sisters, Associates and colleagues throughout the world to celebrate 188 years of fidelity to Blessed Theresa’s vision and charism. In communion and solidarity with the worldwide community present here and elsewhere, Ministry Services has prepared a prayer we can all pray together.

Foundation Day 2020 Prayer

“Loving God, on this day we turn to you in gratitude for the 187 hallowed years of the Congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.” Commemorate this year’s Foundation Day with the Foundation Day 2020 Prayer.

What is our Foundation? By Sister Mary Maher

This year, this Foundation Day – with all that is going on here in this country and in so many places around the world, with all that is going on in our lives in this precious local community – it may be good for us to reflect on two simple questions...