Our province and our congregation celebrated the perpetual profession of Sister Joan Pikiell at the Villa Notre Dame Chapel in Wilton, CT. Thank you to Sister Betty Koehn for providing her photos from this special day.
Our Sisters from Maria Health Care in Baltimore, who recently created a new community at Stella Maris in Timonium, about 15 minutes from Villa Assumpta, are doing well in their new location. Sisters from around the province have been asking how their move went. Although there were limited opportunities to document the moves because of COVID, Sister Betty Koehn has been kind enough to share her photos from the transition.
Here is just a glimpse of the many photos taken as the Sisters in Lourdes prepared to set up on their new mission in Ozanam Hall in New York. A reception was held on Friday, September 20 to say farewell (for now) and wish them well. The moves started on Monday, September 23, with five Sisters moving each day.
On October 28, 2018 the City of Rochester, Office of the Mayor proclaimed it to be School Sisters of Notre Dame Day. Sister Lorraine Burns described the historic event, "The spirit that permeated Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, N.Y. on Sunday was one of joy and gratitude as School Sisters, family, friends, clergy and other women religious gathered to pay tribute to Blessed Mother Theresa Gerhardinger and Sister Caroline Friess and the early School Sisters of Notre Dame on 185th anniversary of the foundation of the congregation, and the ministering to the German immigrants of Western New York since 1849".
A special occasion for celebrating 165 years of sisters’ ministering in the Diocese of Rochester, a tree was planted and a plaque erected in the cemetery where SSND sisters are buried. Side by side, sisters have worked, prayed, and played with other religious congregations of women, especially the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of St. Joseph. We continue to partner with them in building up the Kingdom of God in the Diocese of Rochester. For all that has been, we give thanks....for all that will be, we also give thanks!"
Please click here to view a news clip of the event and here to view the Proclamation .
185th SSND Celebration and Story from SSND Atlantic Midwest on Vimeo.
