Network - Winter 2009
This edition of Network includes feature articles on the Women's Outreach Center in Cleveland, St. Thomas Aquinas School, the province corporate stance on human trafficking, the 60th anniversary celebration of the India mission and the Chetna Women's Center in Patna, India. This issue also includes the 2008-2009 Annual Report. Click here to download Network
 H2O = LIFE
H20 = Life is an international inter-active learning exhibit currently featured at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center from now until April 2010. The exhibit leads us to discover how water shapes nearly every aspect of our lives. Tap this excellent opportunity to deepen our Corporate Stance: Water for Life. Visit www.GreatScience.com for more information.
Welcome to the Virtual Home of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon Ohio.
Witnessing to God’s goodness and provident care, we are members of a religious congregation founded in Coesfeld, Germany, during a time of religious and social need.
In 1849 a young teacher, Hilligonde Wolbring, out of love for the poor, began to care for neglected children. Together with Elisabeth Kühling, her friend and colleague, she educated and cared for them. Both women had been formed in the spiritual and educational heritage of Rev. Bernard Overberg and were guided in their call to religious life by Rev. Theodor Elting. From the Sisters of Notre Dame of Amersfoort in the Netherlands they acquired the religious Rule of St. Julie Billiart. Today in the third millennium, the Sisters of Notre Dame use the Internet to invite you to learn more about how we witness God’s goodness and provident care in our many ministries throughout the world. I welcome you on behalf of Christ the King Province. I hope that what you find here on our website will lead you to pray with and for us, and perhaps to consider learning more about a call to the Sisters of Notre Dame, as a vowed member or an associate or volunteer. We welcome your interest and your support as a mutual blessing from God.--Sister Mary Cecilia Liberatore, SND, Provincial Superior
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Welcome You
Let us host your next meeting or special event. Notre Dame Educational center offers meeting rooms and gathering spaces for groups of all sizes. On-site catering is available as well. Call Sr. Debra Doig at 440-279-1155 to learn more.
Corporate Stance on Human Trafficking
In June 2009 the Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio approved a corporate stance on human trafficking after a year of education and meetings provided by the committee on human trafficking. The following is the corporate stance statement:
We, the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Chardon Provice, respecting the inherent dignity of each person, corporately stand in support of human rights by explicitly opposing the trafficking of women, children, and men for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. We will make every effort to assist victims of trafficking and to end human trafficking in our world.
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Annual Appeal 2010
The Sisters of Notre Dame are grateful for all those who partner with them in their mission. Please prayerfully consider offering your support to our Sisters, who continue to witness God’s goodness and provident care to all, through the generosity of your gifts. For more information contact the Advancement Office at (440) 279-1178, or click here,
“WOMEN & SPIRIT: CATHOLIC SISTERS IN AMERICA”
is a travelling historical exhibit sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). We are pleased to announce that it will be on display in northeast Ohio at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage from May 8-August 28, 2010.
With the collaboration of Notre Dame College, the Conference of Religious Leaders (CORL) of the Diocese of Cleveland, the Maltz Museum, and the Sisters of Charity Foundation, the display is positioned to reach a wide audience across neighboring states and all faith groups.
Artifacts and images that have rarely been seen by the general public will be coupled with first-hand narratives to give visitors to the exhibit an experience of the impact women religious have had on the history of America. For more information visit www.womenandspirit.org.
 New Books by Sr. Kathleen Glavich
Prayer-Moments for Every Day of the Year, 2009 (Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Blvd. Mahwah, NJ 07430, 800-218-1903 www.nedderpublishing.com)
A collection of mantras and how to pray them. These one-line prayers bring God close at times when you’re too tired, sick, or stressed to pray any other kind of prayer. 72 pp. $9.95
Lent 2010 for Kids: We Follow Jesus! 2009  (Twenty-Third Publications, One Montauk Avenue Suite 200, New London, CT 06321, 800-321-0411 www.23rdpublications.com)
A page a day for Lent that keeps children focused on following Jesus. Each page has a brief reflection on what Jesus was like, a prayer, and an activity. 49 pp. $1.25 (discounts for multiple copies)
Vision 2011
Province Strategic Plan
 Our Mission
We witness God’s goodness and provident care for all people.
Our life of contemplation and action leads us to proclaim the Gospel in the realities of today’s world.
Compelled by our love for Jesus Christ and his mission, we stand with those who are poor.
Our Vision
We are united in a common mission of witnessing God’s goodness and provident care through our apostolic ministries. As women of faith and compassion, we make visible the reign of God by empowering others to embrace the fullness of life.
Our Core Values
Apostolic Spirituality
Passion for the Fullness of Life
Community for Mission
Joyful Simplicity(July 2006)
Notre Dame Skills Lab
Notre Dame Skills Lab exemplifies the charism of the Sisters of Notre Dame and lives out the call to educate for “Transformation”. Under the direction of Sister Carole Geiger, the Lab provides individual tutoring and group sessions for students from Kindergarten through adulthood. It offers multiple programs and utilizes a variety of resources at four different sites. Credit classes for high school students are available throughout the year at the South Euclid site. The certified staff, endowed with unique teaching styles, is able to address the different learning styles of each student during the academic year as well as in our summer program. Visit www.ndsltutoring.org for more information.
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 First Mission in Central America
At the invitation of Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera, the Sisters of Notre Dame began a mission in Nicaragua on July 26, 2008. Four American sisters — three from the Chardon, Ohio province and one from the Toledo, Ohio  province —went to Jinotega to minister in the parish of Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) in El Llano de las Tejeras with the goal of spreading the Gospel message and empowering lay leadership.
With financial help from Food for the Poor and the American Nicaraguan Foundation, a simple convent and a parish community center were built. The sisters ministering here serve the parish of Sangre de Cristo, as well as many mission communities and villages in the mountains. This area is among the poorest in Nicaragua, which is the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
We accompany the people in order to discover their needs, especially revitalizing catechesis, empowering women, and finding ways to improve their economic condition. May our presence here spread healing and peace, which is so needed in our world.
For more information or to support the Sisters of Notre Dame in Nicaragua, contact Sr. M. Valerie Sweeney at 440-279-1160 or vsweeney@ndec.org.
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