Sisters' Stories - Celebrating 185 years of ministry

In honor of our Foundation Day on October 24 we are sharing stories from and/or about our amazing SSND Sisters.

We invite you to help us continue to tell the stories of our Sisters this anniversary year by sharing a memory, a note about how a SSND has touched your life, or perhaps how you or your ministry are living the SSND charism. Reflections, essays and articles by and about sisters will now be featured weekly and will continue to be highlighted on our website as they come in. Please send us your submissions to comm@amssnd.org.

Christmas Traditions in the Central Pacific Province

Special traditions bring the Christmas spirit to our sisters in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mississippi and St. Louis.

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A Fire in Wilton

The chapel fire broke out on Thursday, January 7, 1988, at one o’clock in the afternoon.

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SSNDs Serve Travelers at the Border

For five days during Thanksgiving week, our SSND community of four from Douglas, Arizona, was privileged to serve families in transit from the border to sponsors all over the U.S.

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Happy Are the Grateful

Few of us stop to think that being made to say "thank you" was perhaps our first bit of conscious acculturation. Becoming civilized was and is a matter of nurture, not nature.

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The "Catholic Spirit" of Mother Caroline

Father Peter Mathias Abbelen, Father Spiritual of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in North America, and confidante of Mother Caroline, wrote an account of her life shortly after her death.

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We Walk By Faith

One is not able to appreciate the full measure of her blessing until she encounters another person’s experience.

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How SSND Mission, Vision and Values Influence Sisters Academy – One Girl at a Time

Sisters Academy of Baltimore (SAB) is the youngest of all SSND ministries in the province, established in 2004 and sponsored together with three other congregations.

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SSND Christmas in 1960s Charleston

Our Christmas within the convent is a very wonderful time. Our bishop goes from convent to convent during the Christmas holidays, says Mass in the convent chapel, and afterwards stays for breakfast and a chat.