Discernment Process
Sisters of IHM Vocations
Sisters, Servants of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
of Immaculata, Pennsylvania, are a religious congregation
committed to proclaiming the Gospel message
in the spirit of Jesus the Redeemer.
Strengthened by a life of vowed consecration,
nurtured by prayer and the Eucharist,
and sustained by community living,
the Sisters radiate joyful service and promote Gospel values,
offering compassion to all God’s people
through our charism of love, creative hope, and fidelity
and through our mission to evangelize, to catechize, and to teach.
Today more than 550 Sisters comprise the Immaculata branch
of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
who currently staff schools in the states of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Illinois,
New Hampshire, and in Peru.
The Sisters work in the Congregation’s corporate apostolate
of Catholic education as well as in catechetical, pastoral,
hospital and prison ministries, parenting programs,
counseling, literacy instruction, adult spirituality programs,
care of the infirm, retreat work, Hispanic ministry and campus ministry.
In their lives and in their work,
they continue to offer Praise, Love, and Thanksgiving to God
as they carry out the Gospel mandate of Jesus, the Redeemer:
“Go and teach all nations.”