The Parents Program at the University of Notre Dame invites all our parents to be engaged in the life of the University. Whether you are a current parent, a lifetime parent, or a prospective parent, your students are our greatest treasure. We are grateful to you for supporting their decision to attend the University of Notre Dame, and we share your pride in their success. We welcome your commitment to, and involvement with, the University of Notre Dame.
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For the second year, parents across the country have worked with the Parents Program to coordinate a Mothers of Notre Dame Mass to celebrate the women and mothers of Notre Dame around the world. On May 19, the Sunday after Mother's Day, several Masses dedicated to our Notre Dame mothers were celebrated from Vermont to Hawaii. Read More
View the Parent Information Presentation that was web-streamed on Jan. 28. Information about Notre Dame's Study Abroad programs, Housing, the Career Center, and Commencement Weekend, and how financial aid is impacted, and impacts these other programs is presented. View at: Read More
On November 2, the Feast of All Souls, a Memorial Mass was celebrated at Geddes Hall chapel by Fr. Pete McCormick. This Mass honored the parents, spouses, alumni, staff and friends of the University of Notre Dame who have passed away. A Book of Prayer holding the names of these loved ones was placed at the altar. Following the Mass a reception allowed the attendees to celebrate each other as part of the Notre Dame family.
For the first time, the sophomore parents had their own event! Kudos to the Sophomore Class Council for initiating and planning a nonalcoholic tailgate for sophomore parents.
The Parents Program and the Sophomore Class
sponsored an opportunity for the sophomore parents who were planning to be on campus for the BYU game (one of the designated 'parent' games) to meet each other, have lunch, and spend some time before the game at the Sophomore Class tent on DeBartolo quad. Over 1,000 sophomores, parents, and their guests attended this event. Read More
God of Guiding Light and Love,
Your presence during these years has
enlivened and comforted me.
Through Your gentle care,
I have grown and experienced so much.
It was easy to feel You around me
in the beaity and fellowship of this place.
As my future presents itself,
calm my worries and fears,
remain by my side,
direct my path as our journey together continues.
With You I continue on,
expectant and excited for the life awaiting me.
Amen.
By Faith Bachner-Reimer, Pasquerilla East
From Lead, Kindly Light, The Notre Dame Book of Prayers,
Published by Campus Ministry
Calendar
May 8, 2013 May E-News to Current Parents
May 8 - summer Douglad Road Closure and Expansion
May 11, 2013 Undergraduate Halls close at 2 p.m.
May 12, 2013 Mother's Day
May 17-19, 2013 Commencement Weekend
Notre Dame Commencement 2013 video
May 19, 2013 Mothers of Notre Dame Masses
celebrated around the country
May 27, 2013 Memorial Day observed
May 31, 2013 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
Current Notre Dame Information and News
This is our goal "...to build a Notre Dame that is bigger and better than ever - a great Catholic university for the 21st century, one of the pre-eminent research institutions in the world, a center for learning whose intellectual and religious traditions converge to make it a healing, unifying, enlightening force for a world deeply in need."
Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C.
President, University of Notre Dame
2005 Inaugural Address
