VISIONS FALL 2017
Notre Dame Introduces New Liturgical Choir On November 1, Notre Dame’s new liturgical choir and instrumentalists added to the worship and music at our All Saints’ Day Mass. More than 50 students and teachers will participate in each liturgy under the direction of Mr. Mark Griswold, Director of Religious Education and Family Life Ministry at St. Norbert Parish. Griswold will work with the choir during his available
Notre Dame Students Participate in Drexel Global Classroom This summer, three ND students participated in a Global Classroom program facilitated by Drexel University and Leeds University, England. The students shared Shown from left to right: Elizabeth Graham, their experiences Hailey Opperman, and Madison Riley. and insights with the Center for Global Leadership’s Director Mrs. Nora Moffat as the Academy initiates a Global Classroom program with Saint Nicholas Girls’ School, Singapore.
time to support this important ministry. In his address on sacred music in March, 2017, Pope Francis quoted the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, saying, “Liturgical action is given a more noble form when it is celebrated in song … and with the participation of the people.”
Students Selected for All-Catholic Festival Instrumental musicians Hannah Jackson, left, and Eva Kraus, right, have been selected to perform in the AllCatholic Strings Festival. Hannah received a first violinist seat, and Eva received a second violinist seat. The culminating festival performance at Bonner-Prendergast will be held on February 18, 2018, with an additional performance at the Kimmel Center on April 17, 2018.
“Global classrooms are an exciting new avenue for collaboration between Notre Dame students and students at our sister schools around the world,” says Moffat. “They do not simply mean that curriculum or lessons teach about a place, a people or global issues, but rather that students learn both alongside and from students who attend the high quality institutions we’ve created relationships with in Asia and South America.” Teachers at Notre Dame and at Saint Nicholas are reading from the same book on global classrooms in preparation for a collaborative learning project this spring.
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