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.

Rochester Celebrates 185 Years!

On October 28, 2018 the City of Rochester, Office of the Mayor proclaimed it to be School Sisters of Notre Dame Day!

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Academy of the Holy Angels - The Move to Demarest

Following the natural course of the 43-acre site, the curved room layout affords a view of the distant hills from the classrooms.

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Academy of the Holy Angels - The Fort Lee Years

With vision in her eyes and blessing prayed from heaven, Sister Mary Nonna, SSND, reached Fort Lee, New Jersey, on October 2, 1879.

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Sisters connect with the past through cornerstone box opening!

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.

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Mother Joachim Bushmann Tended to Canada's Orphans

Mother Caroline Friess recognized in Sister Joachim the wisdom, stamina and administrative skills needed to open the first mission in Canada.

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Reflecting on Sister Maura Eichner

I was blessed to know Sister Maura as a teacher, a colleague, and a friend. I would like to share some stories about her wry humor.

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Sister Maura Eichner, Poet and Teacher

Sister Maura Eichner taught English and was Chair of the English Department for 49 years, winning several teaching awards, including the prestigious Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic higher education.

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Mount Mary University Carries on SSND Educational Vision, Mission

Six hundred and Eighty-nine School Sisters of Notre Dame Have Served at Mount Mary Over the Years.

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All the Works of God

I will forever embrace the words of Mother Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger that, “All the works of God proceed slowly and in pain; but then their roots are the sturdier and their flowering the lovelier.”