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In Mission 2024 - Longing for the Oneness of All in God

The articles presented in this edition of In Mission show different aspects of how we try to respond to the call of our General Chapter. We read about education, restructuring into one new province, care of creation, reconciliation, communication ……

Memorial Service Programs Archives

Here you will find the prayers being prayed during Memorial Services for our Sisters who have died. Because of social distancing, these memorials cannot currently be held with large numbers of Sisters attending, but many Sisters would still like to pray the service for each Sister lost. This archive starts in May 2020.

Quotes to Reflect On

Our Sisters shared such inspiring Lenten reflections in 2024 that we decided to publish excerpts from them for Ash Wednesday this year. Each one offers a rich opportunity for reflection.

Feast of Josephine Bakhita Febuary 8th 2025

The Dismantling Racism and End Human Trafficking committees developed a prayer service for the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita on February 8. Use it individually or communally to pray for an end to racism and human trafficking and for victims of these situations. Thank you for your awareness and prayer for this courageous Saint and for the human dignity of all people.

Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025

As we celebrate this day commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s impact and efforts to create a more just society, the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Atlantic-Midwest Province recommit ourselves “to be credible witnesses of universal communion through deepening our efforts to live as an intercultural faith community of one mind and one heart.” (The Call and Acts of the 25th General Chapter).

Renew Actions for Peace in the New Year

On the World Day of Peace and the Feast of Mary, Our Mother, and Queen of Peace, on January 1, let us recommit our efforts for peace through prayer and action.

2024 Advent Examen

Praying the ‘Examen’ is a tradition that comes to us from St. Ignatius of Loyola. It invites reflection and a review of a time period that can be done on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, or any other meaningful interval. Often people use it in the evening to review their day. Over time, one may sense how God’s Spirit is present with us in the ordinary day-to-day. Engaging this Examen over time, people have found clarity, direction, inspiration and a deepened sense of purpose in mission, ministry and life.

Prayerful Reflection on Migrants for Advent

The Justice for Immigrants Committee invites you to watch the following video and then consider the suggestions at the end as a way you might reach out to our thousands of brothers and sisters, eyes overflowing with tears, waiting with Christ in the darkness this Advent

Advent 2024

Several SSNDs will share reflections here throughout this Advent season. New reflections will be added each week. Enjoy!

Prayer Service for World Day of the Poor and Mother Theresa

The Shalom International Network and the Congregational Communications and Technology Team hosted a prayer service from Mother Theresa’s tomb on Sunday, November 17, at 7:30 pm (Rome time) for about 30 minutes commemorating the World Day of the Poor and Blessed Theresa’s Beatification Day. If you missed it, you can still view it.

Disrupting Darkness at Waterdown and Villa Assumpta

Sisters, Associates and Colleagues who live at or near Villa Assumpta, Baltimore, MD, and Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, are invited to participate in-person at an Advent Reflection and dialogue series.

Prayer for All Souls Day

Prayer for All Souls Day (submitted by Pat Ferrick)

Merciful Father,

On this day, we are called to remember those who have died,

Particularly those who have died in the past year,

Greetings to the Natural World

Giving thanks is an enduring tradition among Indigenous peoples. The Haudenosaunee recite this Thanksgiving address at community gatherings throughout the year.

Laudato Si’ – A Christian Prayer in Union With Creation

Prayer at the end of Laudato Si’: …Triune Lord, wondrous community of infinite love...

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Happy Feast Day!

We celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15. The School Sisters of Notre Dame are dedicated to Mary whose spirit is alive in the prayer, life and service of sisters, associates, staff, and volunteers. Please enjoy this resource for reflection and prayer.

Laudato Si’ – A Christian Prayer in Union With Creation

…Son of God, Jesus, through you all things were made.

Laudato Si' - Prayer for the Earth, Continued

Pope Francis's Prayer for the Earth at the end of Laudato Si': …Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction. Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth.

Laudato Si' - Prayer for the Earth

Pope Francis's Prayer for the Earth at the end of Laudato Si': Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes.

You Are Invited - Please Join Us in Prayer

You are invited to participate in a special time of prayer during the Assembly. Please mark your calendars for Friday, August 16, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT With the entire LCWR, we invite and encourage you to join the approximately 700 leaders of congregations of women religious for a one-hour live-streamed contemplative prayer experience, “Who Then Shall We Be? A Contemplative Prayer for the World.”

Will We Pass the Test of Time?

There is a season … a time. Time and again we gather as a community to reflect about our purpose. We are surrounded by time whether we wear watches or not. We’ve got time on our hands. What time is it?

Laudato Si’ - The Trinity and the Relationship Between Creatures

239, 240. For Christians, believing in one God who is trinitarian communion suggests that the Trinity has left its mark on all creation… The human person grows more, matures more and is sanctified more to the extent that he or she enters into relationships, going out from themselves to live in communion with God, with others and with all creatures. In this way, they make their own that trinitarian dynamism which God imprinted in them when they were created.

Laudato Si’ - Sacramental Signs and the Celebration of Rest

237. On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality.

Laudato Si’ - Sacramental Signs and the Celebration of Rest

236. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved; it is the living center of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible life. Joined to the incarnate Son, present in the Eucharist, the whole cosmos gives thanks to God.

Novena to Blessed Sister Maria Antonina Kratochwil

Join us in this novena to Blessed Sister Maria Antonina, a Patron of Shalom. June 12th is the feast day she shares with the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.

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