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What Makes Us One- The Legacy of Dorothy Day

The School Sisters of Notre Dame Atlantic-Midwest Province and the SSND Associates, in collaboration with Well for the Journey, invite you to view the second in our series of days of reflections on What Makes Us One.

Sharing the Vision

Our union with God, supported and fostered by our sisters in community, impels us to share with others our prayer and faith experience and to receive from them the richness of theirs.  ~ You Are Sent, General Directory 50

SSND associate Fran Bond, Ph.D. Awarded Maryland Geri Award

“I believe volunteering should be an everyday part of our life experiences,” admits this humble Geri Award winner. “I don’t see what I did as heroic or beyond. I think this is the way we should all think about helping one another, that it should be a part of our life’s work.”

Associate Stories: MAP at the Border

Delores at the BorderIn August, I participated in MAP at the border in Douglas, Arizona and Mexico, spending a week with four SSND Sisters – Judy Bourg, Helen Jones, Lucy Nigh and

Associate Marge Potter

SSND Associate: Marge Potter

“The sisters are lovely woman who really are passionate. My passion is education and I want to do my best to serve well,” Marge Potter said. “I always hear the SSNDs talking about service and doing things for others, and they always see outside of themselves. That’s fallen on to me because I see myself as wanting to serve too.”
Associate Sue Muth

SSND Associate: Sue Connell Muth

“Gratitude for what the School Sisters of Notre Dame did for me is the motivation for accepting the invitation to become an Associate.”      –Sue Muth
Associate Peggy Russell

SSND Associate: Peggy Russell

“Sister Alfred, who became a dear friend, introduced poetry and taught us to use it for calming and slipping into another world.” -Peggy Russell
Associate Karen Didier

SSND Associate: Karen Didier

“Everybody has their own gifts to offer. If you keep them inside you then you’re not helping people you encounter. That’s what I’m reminded of as an Associate.”      -Karen Didier
Jean Fredricks, an Associate in Connecticut

SSND Associate: Jean Fredricks

“The sisters and I have the unique opportunity to foster Mother Theresa’s charism that ‘all will be one’” -Jean Fredricks
Suzanne Blackburn, an Associate at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, Maryland

SSND Associate: Suzanne Blackburn

"I had a notion that Associates supported sisters in their living of the charism. I remember the day it dawned on me that the charism was for me, too.” -Suzanne Blackburn