February 5, 2025 – “God take us to where you want us to be. Help us to ask the questions you want us to ask and meet the people we most need to meet.” This is the prayer that Sister Barbara Brumleve and her then research partner, Sister Marjorie Myers, would say each day while on a three-year journey to capture and catalog the stories and resources of School Sisters of Notre Dame.

November 13, 2023 – During the 25th General Chapter of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Rome Pope Francis thanked and praised the sisters for their longstanding dedication to education, service and spirituality. He urged them to continue to make Christ visible by effectively bearing witness to the joy of the Gospel in meaningful service to the Church.

October 4, 2023 – October 24 marks the 190th anniversary of the founding of the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND). On this day in 1833, Caroline Gerhardinger (later known as Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger) and two other women began living in community in Bavaria, Germany, planting the first seeds of the SSND congregation. While early celebrations of this milestone are unknown, we know the 25th anniversary was commemorated in 1858 and grand festivities were held for the 50th, 100th and 150th anniversaries. Today, Foundation Day is celebrated everywhere SSND gather as they remember their roots, give thanks for their blessings and recommit to their mission.

September 1, 2021 – This fall, sisters will move from Notre Dame of Elm Grove (NDEG), Elm Grove, Wisconsin. After 162 years at NDEG, sisters reflect on their time there. Sister Mariel Kreuziger reflects on her history with NDEG and Mount Mary University.

May 5, 2021 – In the fall of 2021, the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) will move to their new home at Trinity Woods on the Mount Mary University campus in Milwaukee, ending 162 years of continual residence in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.

Our Lady of Good Counsel’s historic organ is the largest surviving organ in a series or organs designed and built by William A. Johnson & Sons.

May 6, 2020 – Blessed Mary Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger, foundress of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, was an inspirational leader. Sister Mary Ann Kuttner shares the historical details of her life, from 15-year-old until her death on May 9, 1879.

May 6, 2020 – As sisters moved from St. Mary of the Pines in Chatawa, Mississippi, to St. Anthony’s Gardens in Covington, Louisiana, the feelings of transition can be difficult. Sister Marie Williams shares her experience of the transition from Chatawa to Covington. “In looking back, most of us would say that the transition, though hard, was made much easier by the prayers and the wonderful support given to us by the sisters of the Central Pacific Province.

January 8, 2020 – The School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) Central Pacific Province are in the process of moving from St. Mary of the Pines in Chatawa, Mississippi, to St. Anthony’s Gardens in Covington, Louisiana. St. Mary of the Pines will have been in operation for 146 years once the transition is complete later this year. That’s 146 years worth of stories and memories to share. “Hopefully, the goodness and peace experienced here have been carried to others in an ever-widening circle,” says Sister Lorraine Landry.

October 2, 2019 – Mother Caroline Friess, School Sisters of Notre Dame’s American foundress, carried the dedication to Christ as the Vine with her to Elm Grove, Wisconsin. She asked before her death in 1886, that a grape arbor be planted as a pathway to the cemetery as a reminder of our call to “remain in Christ.”