October 7, 2026 - The public is invited to attend an estate sale being held at Sancta Maria in Ripa, St. Louis, October 15-17, as School Sisters of Notre Dame make final preparations for the property to be sold.
October 7, 2026 – More than diversity, interculturality is a relationship. As School Sisters of Notre Dame seek to more fully realize and embrace their interculturality as a congregation, so too does the 2027 Women’s Leadership Luncheon invite everyone to learn more about this concept and why it is important.
September 2, 2026 – A much-anticipated moment was made real on August 9 as sisters, students, staff, guests, and community members joined together as the ribbon was cut on a significant expansion project at Notre Dame High School, St. Louis. The new building houses the school’s STREAM programming spaces—Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics— and stands as a testament to the ongoing value placed on Catholic education and the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s mission of educating women.
September 2, 2026 – “We have always been an international congregation, located all over the world, on five continents, and we have embraced our multicultural diversity, sharing our unique cultures whenever we are together,” said Sister Debra Sciano, provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame, Central Pacific Province. “In more recent years, we have shifted our focus to be intercultural, rather than multicultural, which is less focused on our differences and more about building relationships, and experiencing one another in a more personal way, with deeper communication and openness to be transformed and shaped by those encounters. Being intercultural and looking for ways to grow together in community is reflective of our mission to bring all together in that oneness for which Jesus Christ was sent to the world.”
September 2, 2026 – Season of Creation, celebrated each September and ending on October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, is an opportunity for people across the globe to celebrate and consider their relationship with creation. It is also an opportunity to take action in efforts to protect and care for our common home. The theme for this year’s Season of Creation is Living Water. The School Sisters of Notre Dame, Central Pacific Province Laudato Si’ committee invites you to learn more about Season of Creation and why it is especially important in this moment of so many environmental challenges, especially as they relate to water. They also share a list of suggestions on how you can mark this month with creative, reflective, or action-focused activities.
August 5, 2026 – Last summer, for the first time, Whole Kids Outreach, an affiliated ministry of School Sisters of Notre Dame, coordinated with the SSND North American Vocation Team to welcome high schoolers from Notre Dame schools to a Summer Service Week. The students served as volunteer counselors for local children who attended Camp Whole Kids—a day camp run by the ministry. The experience was so enthusiastically embraced by the high schoolers that it was offered again this year, and once again, every available volunteer spot was filled.
August 5, 2026 – Throughout the year, the Resource Development Office for School Sisters of Notre Dame hosts Celebrate & Connect events as an opportunity for communities to reconnect with the sisters who have ministered in their schools and parishes. Earlier this summer, 20 SSND journeyed to Jefferson City, Missouri, to spend an afternoon catching up with former students and co-workers from their ministry days in the area as well as donors and other friends of SSND. Fueled by good food and good memories, the day included time not only to reminisce and recall the significant impact of the sisters, but also to reinvigorate connections both old and new.
July 1, 2026 – After 13 years as an elementary school teacher, a chance encounter at a woodcarver’s booth at a Festival of Nation’s event sparked a new interest for Sister Mary Ann Osborne. She purposefully pursued the technical skills needed for her craft, as well as sought guidance on how to successfully instill genuine feeling into each piece. Taking inspiration from the Gospel, nature, and her experience as a School Sister of Notre Dame (SSND), she estimates she has completed some 2,000 significant works of wood-carved sculptures and wall-hangings over the course of the last 40 years. This summer, approximately 20 of her pieces are being featured at a gallery exhibit titled, “Connecting with Source” in Madison, Wisconsin.
July 1, 2026 – Dr. Caroline O’Brien, Ph.D., is the president of Notre Dame of Dallas Schools. Founded by School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) in 1963, the school serves students with intellectual disabilities. More than 60 years later, the influence of SSND lives on in the ways the school teaches and supports students, engages with the community, and through the spirit of SSND embraced by the school’s leadership.
June 3, 2026 – From her earliest elementary school days, through high school and into college, Marya Pohlmeier had School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) as teachers. As she moved through her own life as a teacher, principal and director of religious education, the memories and influence of SSND left a meaningful and lasting impact. “I used my Notre Dame education all the way through,” said Marya.
