VISION: We, Notre Dame Educators, dedicate ourselves in the charismatic spirit of St. Julie and Sister Mary Aloysia, to lead others, in the Transformation of Individuals and Society that all may have Life, life in its Fullness.
Mission: We, as Notre Dame Educators, commit ourselves to give the youth a holistic development, to form them to have an integrated life, to imbibe the rich heritage of humanness, with respect for individuals and creation having diverse cultures, resources and learning to live a harmonious life with the help of God our creator who is present among us and with us.
Motto: We live a joyful simplicity.
Spirit: Glory to God and service to all.
Charism: We Proclaim God’s goodness and provident care.
Principles of Education:
Reaching out to charismatic origins, a timeline of the Congregation of the sisters of Notre Dame stretches from 2024, back to the birth of St. Julie Billiart, the Spiritual mother, in 1751. It hints a story of shifting patters and multiple personalities, but unified by a golden thread gleaming through years and countries: the charismatic spirit of St. Julie, a simplicity of vision which perceived Go’s goodness and revealed this goodness to all she met. Her maxim was HOW GOOD IS THE DEAR GOOD GOD. To show this in her life and teaching her followers to do the same was Juli’s aim.
Julie was born of the common people in France, in 1751. Her childhood was happy, her education simple but deeply grounded in God. She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, in 1804. Her charismatic spirit of finding God’s goodness in everything was handed over to our own foundress Sister Maria Aloysia Wolbring, who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Coesfeld, Germany, in 1850.
Urged by the charism of St. Julie and Sister Maria Aloysia, Notre Dame has established foundation throughout the world. The institution gives witness to God’s love by involvement in various educational, pastoral, social, and medical services in the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceana
(Germany, Italy, Holland, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Indonesia, Korea, India, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Philippines, China, and Vietnam).
The first Notre Dame was founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, in 1950. (Notre Dame Academy Patna was founded in 1960. This sentence can be about your school.) Today, Notre Dame institutions are established in different states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Orissa, Andra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala.
The aim of Notre Dame education is to train young minds for selfless leadership, that the students we educate will be able to change the oppressive structures of society, by standing for justice and human rights. They are to inspire and to assist their fellow citizens in directing their lives to God in faith, by helping, healing, reconciling and taking a firm stand on moral principles of honesty, integrity, hard work and freedom.
In God’s providence weaving of Notre Dame story through time and place, crisis, growth, and renewal, the gleam of St. Julie’s spirit has not been lost. It shone from France to all the continents and countries wherever the Notre Dames are living with people around them.
We invite all the parents, guardians, staff, faculty, students and all the well-wishers to join hands in spreading God’s goodness and Provident care of our good God.
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