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Advent Challenge 2025

Join the SND USA Advent Challenge by following along with our page’s stories each day that will have you praying, reflecting, and participating in your own life and community. Use #SNDAdvent2024 and tag our page…

2025 Year in Review

Thank you for being a part of the mission of the Sisters of Notre Dame of the United States in 2025. See the impact of your support!…

SNDs Meet with Pope Leo XIV

SND Superior General, Sister Mary Ann Culpert, presented a cross to Pope Leo XIV, sharing that the Sisters of Notre Dame are celebrating 175 years of faith and service….

Advent Afternoon of Recollection

When stillness, peaceful silence, lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course, down from the heavens, the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word…….

November, California Region Mission Advancement E-gram

On behalf of the Sisters of Notre Dame, please know that we gratefully include you in our daily prayer. We regularly receive many prayer requests. Some are written in a book of intentions at the…

2025 Recap and Photo Gallery: 4th Annual SHINE Women’s Summit

On Thursday, November 6, 2025, the Sisters of Notre Dame hosted the fourth annual SHINE Women’s Summit at The Premier in Toledo, OH. The evening brought together over 450 women – and a few supportive…

Building Bridges in Support of East Africa

The SNDs are grateful to our partners across the country who regularly support our East Africa Mission. One powerful collaboration began in 2022 after Sr. Valerie Sweeney of the Chardon region made a mission appeal…

Sister Mary Gertrude Ann Mueller, SND

Sister Mary Gertrude Ann Mueller, SNDNovember 10, 1937 – October 30, 2025Professed August 13, 1957 “The one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6). Throughout her 87 years Sister Mary Gertrude Ann…

October Mission Advancement E-gram

The celebration of our 175th anniversary continues! This group of SND pilgrims to Rome recently had the special privilege of a general audience with Pope Leo XIV. In this photo, Sr. Mary Ann Culpert, our…

Sr. Valerie Schneider’s Founder’s Day Reflections

Sister Valerie Schneider’s Blog and Prayer We are celebrating 175 years since the founding of our Sisters of Notre Dame congregation, when our Sister Maria Aloysia Wolbring and Sister Maria Ignatia Kuhling pronounced their vows….