Foundation Day 2018 was particularly festive at the Academy of the Holy Angels, where the school community gathered to mark the 185th anniversary of the establishment of the School Sisters of Notre Dame!
Several years ago, I had the great privilege of accompanying Sister Limeteze Pierre-Gilles on a home visit to Haiti. This is my journal from that trip.
In 1990, 678 SSNDs enrolled in a study led by epidemiologist Dr. David Snowden that aimed to better understand the aging process and the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. The participation of the sisters presented a unique opportunity for researchers to investigate the patterns and causes of disease.
“Hermana Linda,” I hear called to me by my newly arrived Mexican friends as I walk the streets of Camden, New Jersey, a small city of 87,000 people that is racked by poverty and violence but not without hope.
Seeds planted in Wilton, CT grow in Queens, New York....in the midst of a New York City power outage, Cathy, Jean and Janice moved into the second floor of the convent, which had been designated as their community space, while the basement and first floor became the Center.
I was a student at St. Teresa Catholic School from 1956 to 1964. Five of the eight Belleville Catholic schools had SSNDs in residence. Our principal, Sister Carol Therese (now Sister Charlotte Gaughan) loved to teach us!
As I celebrate the anniversary of my arrival in Peru for the first time 42 years ago, I am most grateful to God for the many opportunities, life-giving experiences and challenges that have touched me and helped me to grow during these years.
Sister Clara Foeckersperger reflects on her experience living under the Hitler Regime in Germany and surviving and ministering for six years in war-torn England.
SSND has a long history of ministry in Western New York. On March 19, 1849, Sister Caroline Friess, with another sister and a candidate, founded the congregation’s fourth branch house in America in Buffalo, New York.
At the top of the printed Directional Statement, an image of three sisters, with open arms, fling golden circles of "Love Gives Everything" out into the universe.
In 2011, Sister Mariel Kreuziger and Sister Anton Marie Voissem, both then age 80, were retiring from full-time ministry but were not ready for full-time retirement. “We work with people of many different religions and cultures. It has given me a new vision for who God is. God is for all of us.”
It is not to the Fire Department nor to the Rescue Squad that people turn to when calamity strikes at IND. Whether it is a mop or a shovel, or the elevator key that is needed, students and teachers alike go to Sister M. Notburga.
Sister Mary Ann Wood joined Johns Hopkins Medicine International in 1991 as one of its first international care coordinators. They recognized Sister Mary Ann as “the official Angel” for the grace and care she showed patients - and staff - for more than two decades.
Each month, School Sisters around the globe gather in local groups to pray and take action on the most pressing social justice and peace issues. This SSND international network for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation is called Shalom.
In 1871, the School Sisters of Notre Dame staffed three parish schools in Chicago. The schools were located in different parts of the city, but each was affected by the great fire.
The sisters determined through research that women had local resources available to them, and that the greater need was for personalized tutoring for children.
With the opening of the Remedial Reading Clinic in 1957, the Catholic School System in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was able to offer Special Services to Children for the first time.