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Bismarck SSND, Sister Ivo, Celebrates 50 Years With the Church, View Video: http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_video.asp?news=41485
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, founded by SSND, Joins with “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” to Transform Lives http://bit.ly/b1htsH
Read about Sister Roselle (scroll to page 6) http://www.dnu.org/news/newspaper/index.pdf
An Artful Calling
Sister Mary Ann Osborne has a calling beyond her profession as a School Sister of Notre Dame (SSND). In her studio, located on Good Counsel Hill, she listens to God and follows her heart as she carves and sculpts images into wood. Click to view entire article.
This month’s liturgist is Sister Lucille Matousek. The Winona diocesan paper, The Courier, has been running a series of articles featuring diocesan liturgists. The article can be read by clicking this link: http://www.dow.org/documents/10FEB_web.pdf (scroll down to page 14).
102 yr. old Sister Nicolette Welter has passed, but her brain will live on (http://ow.ly/TkdW) -- in Nun Study: http://ow.ly/Tkip
Contemporary art is capable of conveying eternal truths
By Maria Wiering Thursday, 03 December 2009
People don’t usually think of Michelangelo as a modern artist. He’s known for his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the marble “Pietà” in St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s dome that dominates the eastern Roman skyline. But it’s partly a Michelangelo sculpture that inspired Sister Mary Ann Osborne to create the contemporary wooden artworks that fill her Mankato studio and grace several churches, including Holy Rosary in Minneapolis and Pax Christi in Eden Prairie.
Sister Zachmann fights to help others
Published August 05, 2009 11:15 pm - School Sister of Notre Dame Alice Zachmann has dedicated her life to abolishing human rights abuses around the world.
Former SSND Receives National Award
Diane Dobitz was recently honored with a national service award. Click on this link to read the Free Press article.
“Everything we do is for the children. They are our priority every day of the week. The children always come first.”
That philosophy spoken by Sister Francette Malecha of Li’l Farm Children’s Home, is part of the reason Li’l Farm was recently honored with the Minnesota Social Services Association Child Foster Care Provider Award....
Coughlan Companies Awards $25,000 Grant to St. Paul Tutoring Program
Coughlan Companies, which includes Capstone Publishers and Mankato Kasota Stone, Inc., is awarding a $25,000 grant to the East Side Learning Center (ESLC), one of the largest and most successful year round tutoring programs serving children in kindergarten through 4th grade in St. Paul, Minn.
Experience,
updated
Specialized on-the-job retraining programs help seniors develop in-demand
skills, digital job search tactics and a new sense of purpose. "I
get paid for 20 hours (per week), but it feels like I'm here more than
50 hours," said James Griffin, left, to his supervisor, Sister
Chrishelle Jaspers, at the Community Clothesline, a nonprofit thrift
store, in Rochester on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Griffin has used his
computer skills to enhance the inventory and sales effectiveness of
the store. "I knew right away he knew more about computers than
I did," said Sister Jaspers. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
(Richard Marshall)
Trash
to fertilizer
Lisa Coons (left) and Sister Dorothy Olinger sift through the worm composting
bin at the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Center for Earth Spirituality
& Rural Ministry. Coons has had the bin for about a year, and the
worms require very little food or upkeep.
Pat Christman / Free Press Staff Writer
Catholic Bishops Want Immigration
Reform
KEYC, MN - 18 hours ago
Sister Anna Marie Reha says, "People have a right to migrate, to
look for a better life for their families and at the same time acknowledging
that countries ...
Minnesota
Catholics to observe 'Immigration Sunday'
Minnesota's Catholic bishops hope the Jan. 4 event will raise awareness
of "outdated" U.S. policy on immigrants.
By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune
Last update: December 16, 2008 - 7:10 PM
Caring
for elderly nuns a growing concern
By Brian Ojanpa
Free Press Staff Writer
MANKATO —
Elderly nuns face a nettlesome irony.
During their working years, their Spartan lives required minimal finances.
But in their retirements, costs for those with nursing-care needs top
$50,000 a year.
School
Sisters of Notre Dame-Special Section
By The Catholic Spirit
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Celebrating 175 years of educating people, working together, and transforming
our world.
Table Tennis Champ Trains for Battle with
Regis
Table Tennis Champ Trains for Battle with Regis
KEYC, MN - 16 hours ago
Today Dorothy played Rich Putman and two sisters from the school sisters
of Notre Dame... all giving her a run for her money...Dorothy will
take on Regis ...
Mexican officials tour southwestern Minnesota
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, By Carol Stender, Agri News staff writer
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. -- Mexican economic development program leaders toured two western Minnesota farms and discussed production practices at a third farm during a recent tour... They visited Earthrise Farm near Madison and learned how Kay and Annette Fernholz developed a strong Community Supported Agriculture program. At The Internet Farmer, they discussed high-tunnel production and raised beds with Aziz Ansari of Watson.
Sudan: Teachers
in Catholic Schools Learn New English Skills
Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
Posted to the web 10 June 2008
Nuns
help in study of Alzheimer's
Tulsa World, OK - Jun 4, 2008
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer As a scientist studying the causes
of Alzheimer's disease, his subjects are the nuns of the School Sisters
of Notre Dame. ...
Mount Mary College Fosters Excellence in Teaching Through National ...
Wauwatosa Now, WI - May 22, 2008
... Mount Mary College, located on an 80-acre campus in Milwaukee, is
a Catholic college for women sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre
Dame. ...
She took
a long road to become a nun
Mankato Free Press, MN -
A decade later — the requisite “discernment” period for becoming a nun — Raven is ready to take her final vows May 10 at the School Sisters of Notre Dame ...
Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota -
Luckily for him, Johnson Elementary School on St. Paul’s East Side has a tutoring program, provided by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. ...
Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota -
Purchased with the financial help of the School Sisters of Notre Dame and grants, the house soon bustled with activity as classes and support groups grew in ...
From the February 6, 2008 edition of the East Side Review
By Caleb Jonas
Annual
Pathfinder Award winners announced
By Robb Murray
The Free Press
Published January 10
—
A high school student, a university faculty member,
a the SSND's Center for Earth Spirituality and Rural Ministry and an
accounting firm all were named Pathfinder Award winners Wednesday.
School Sisters mark 175 years of ministry
Thirteen School Sisters of Notre Dame celebrated the 175th anniversary of their founding and renewed their vows at a Dec. 8 Mass at Our Lady of the Valley Parish.
Nuns leave their brains to science
WILTON, Conn. — When Sister Kathleen Treanor's soul ascends to heaven, her brain will go to a less ethereal realm: a medical lab in Kentucky. Two decades ago, Sister Treanor and 677 other members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame granted a young researcher's request to test them each year in order to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain disorders.
Prayers
and Bears: Nun knits
1,000 bears for charity
By Tanner Kent
Free Press Staff Writer
Published November 25, 2007 10:59 pm - Sister Lauren Spence was told that her bears go to kids who have nothing. "I've been trying to fill that nothing," she says.
DuVal
takes work abroad
Loyola Catholic School superintendent heading to Rome to spread Jesus’
word
By Robb Murray
Free Press Staff Writer
Food
justice, anyone?
Conference to teach about eating responsibly
By Jean Lundquist, Special to Free Press
Sisters
grow organic at Earthrise Farm
Nuns foster community, appreciation
for the land
Tanner Kent
The Free Press
Published September 18, 2007 01:38 am - School Sisters of Notre Dame and biological sisters Kay and Annette Fernholz maintain an 11-acre all-organic plot called Earthrise Farm, which produces food for southern Minnesotans in need and promotes community and reverence for the land.
Nun hopeful once made six-figure salary
Mari
Schuh
Special to The Free Press
Published August 26, 2007 12:16 am
- A 43-year-old LaCrosse, Wis., native gave
up a six-figure salary to become a nun with the School Sisters of Notre
Dame in Mankato.
Li’l Farm: for the love of children
Tuesday, 03 July 2007
By Rachel Kytonen
Located on a farm just northwest of Cambridge, Li’l Farm Children’s Home provides a comforting, temporary home for children who need a welcoming and loving environment.
Sprouts class targets young gardeners
Published June 20, 2007 11:27
pm - A gardening program at the Kids' Peace Garden helps children
learn while having fun.
By Nick Hanson
Free Press Staff Writer
Retired
sisters continue to educate
Good Counsel Learning Center tutoring
for 40 years
Published June 19, 2007 01:09 am
- After a lifelong career in education, retired and semi-retired
teachers from the School Sisters of Notre Dame Mankato Province have
been dedicating a portion of their week to tutoring struggling students.
The Good Counsel Learning Center has been helping to educate for 40
years.
Nick Hanson
The Free Press
Local nun critical part of study
Alzheimer’s research includes Notre Dame nuns
Published May 30, 2007 12:38 am
- Sister Carmen Burg, who died Friday in Mankato, was the key
to David Snowdon’s study at the University of Kentucky, which
looked at all aspects of the nuns’ lives — and their deaths
— to unlock information on the aging brain.
Tim Krohn
The Free Press
Sisters Expand Reach with Multimedia
Blogs, podcasts and MySpace
all possibilities
By Nick Hanson
The Mankato Free Press, May 13, 2007
School Sisters Sent 25 delegates to the UN
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to view
Published April 04, 2007 11:15 am, Mankato
Free Press- Sister Irene Federspiel stops mid stride to study the face
of Virgin Mary and gingerly wipes a fleck of dust from the statue’s
nose. This tiny attention to detail is typical of Federspiel’s
care of the hundreds of ceramic pieces and statues that she has either
created or helped repair at Ceramic Haven of Good Counsel in Mankato.
Still
more to do after Katrina
Good Counsel crew to help out in New Orleans
Published March 26, 2007 12:35 am, Mankato Free Press - Two big vans and a pickup truck stocked with supplies departed from the School Sisters of Notre Dame Good Counsel convent for a mission trip to New Orleans on Sunday.
Our
View — Nuns, Good Counsel staff tackle tough job in New Orleans
Published March
31, 2007 12:52 am, Mankato Free Press - Thumbs up: To the nuns and staff from Good Counsel who are
helping out in New Orleans.
"More Young Women Becoming Nuns"
Sister Melissa Schreifels, SSND, appeared on WCCO's 10 PM news on 2/18/07. Melissa took her first vows this past fall with the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Sister Rosemarie Dvorak, SSND Recognized by Artsonia
Sister Rosemarie has been recognized by Artsonia, the world’s
largest online kids art museum, for outstanding leadership in the area
of Arts Education at St. Joseph School in Minnesota. According to Artsonia
the school’s online art gallery, www.artsonia.com/schools/stjoseph4,
ranks number five in the state of Minnesota.
Sisters' link to food shelf dates back to beginning
By Nick Hanson, The Free Press, January 8, 2007
There’s no question Mankato-area low-income families have benefited
from the presence of the ECHO Food Shelf for decades.
