A look back on 2025

We invite you to take a few moments to watch our Notre Dame Sisters end-of-year video. It’s a brief but meaningful reflection on the moments, ministries, and people that shaped this past year, and a beautiful reminder of the impact made possible through faith, service, and community. We hope it offers a moment of gratitude and inspiration as we look ahead together.

2024-2025 Annual report

We are pleased to share the Notre Dame Sisters Annual Report, a reflection of the many ways our community has lived out faith, service, and compassion over the past year. This year’s report celebrates the enduring gift of Sisters whose lives of prayer, ministry, and joyful witness continue to inspire all who know them. Inside, you’ll find stories that lift up the spirit of Notre Dame Academy, highlight our ministries in action, and honor the women who have shaped our legacy, past, present, and future.

We invite you to spend a few moments exploring the impact of your generosity and partnership. From advancing justice and supporting those in need, to strengthening our family of supporters through prayer, connection, and stewardship, this report reflects a community moving together with purpose and hope. You’ll also find our financials, expressions of gratitude, and heartfelt prayers for those we accompany throughout the year. Thank you for helping the Sisters continue their mission of transforming lives through faith and service. We are grateful for you.

A Historic Step in Our Journey

In the coming year, we are planning a change in our governance structure. More than a century ago when we had become firmly established in the United States, we were designated a province, a geographic area of a congregation that exercises a certain amount of independent provincial leadership under the congregation’s rule. In the Notre Dame congregation, provincial leadership is elected. Because of our shrinking numbers, elections are no longer feasible for us. The Sisters have voted to ask our international congregational leadership to designate us a canonical house, a form of governance in which we are no longer an independent province but a house with a leadership team appointed by the General Superior.  We feel very fortunate to be making this change right now because Mother Metoda is very familiar with us and very supportive of our spirit and culture. She has visited the U.S. twice, has spoken with each sister, and has asked for recommendations for whom she should appoint as the leadership team, canonical house coordinators. This change will take effect in August 2026, and we will keep you informed as our plans progress.

We expect that our daily life, ministry, community life, and spirit will remain the unchanged. We continue to rely on your prayers and support and are always encouraged to witness the way that the Notre Dame spirit continues to live on in so many of you.

We are a group of consecrated Catholic women dedicated to serving God, each other, and our world.
Through our service and ministries, we strive to meet the unmet needs of those in our community and throughout the world. As we continue to respond to the call of Christ as women of faith and prayer, we commit ourselves to building a global Christian community in joyful, loving service to others.

HISTORY RICH IN SERVICE