Looking through another’s eyes: Treasured memories and wisdom-filled insights that we may not have known… MOTHER MARIA PACIS, MADRE MUY SIMPATICA by Kathleen Shaw Wetzel She survived an explosion at age seventeen that killed more than one hundred people. She spent two decades …
Read moreRemembering our deceased Mother Maria Pacis Dougherty and her March 20th Birthday…
On the evening of September 7, 1966, the last sisters sang the Salve Regina in Mother General’s courtyard and sadly whispered farewell to Villa Maria, West Chester. Their sadness faded into joy as they drove into the “still-in-process” Villa Maria House of Studies, Immaculata. Six months later on March 4, 1967, the new Chapel was …
Read moreCelebrate the 54th Anniversary of the First Mass in Sacred Heart Chapel March 4, 1967
Retreat House of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary February 2, 1937 Groundbreaking June 29, 1937 Dedication and Corner Stone Laying Early in 1936, Mother Kostka McCormick (Mother General from 1935 to 1940) had a serious challenge; both financial and spiritual in nature. The community had previously owned a retreat house in …
Read moreFebruary 2, 1937 Groundbreaking of Villa Maria by-the-Sea, Stone Harbor, NJ
January 14, 1892 Co-Founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary congregation. Mother Theresa died at Villa Maria, West Chester and was buried at St. Agnes Parish Cemetery, West Chester. On August 2, 1965 her remains were transferred to the circle of our Mothers General in the IHM Cemetery at Camilla Hall …
Read moreJanuary 14, 1892 Death of Mother Theresa Maxis, IHM
This marked the centenary of the deaths of Mother Theresa Maxis, I.H.M. and Rev. Louis Florent Gillet, C.SS.R., Co-Founders of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary congregation. Mother Theresa died on January 14, 1892 and Father Gillet died on November 14, 1892.
This year on December 12, 2020, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we once again celebrate the Anniversary of our pioneer IHM Sisters’ arrival in Peru on December 12, 1922. With deep gratitude and loving remembrance, we keep the memory of those first sisters, as well as all of our sisters who served and …
Read morePIONEER I.H.M. SISTERS’ ARRIVAL IN SOUTH AMERICA DECEMBER 12, 1922
Today, November 10, 2020, we celebrate our IHM Founders Day. We jubilantly praise and thank God for this very SPECIAL Founders Day, as we rejoice in our 175th. Anniversary as a Religious Congregation. With deep gratitude we remember our Co-Founders, Rev. Louis Florent Gillet, a Redemptorist Priest, and Mother Theresa Maxis, one of our first …