Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM)

IHM Mission Statement

Animated by our charism
of love, creative hope, and fidelity,
and in imitation of Mary, we, the Sisters,
Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
of Immaculata, Pennsylvania,
proclaim 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,
we radiate joyful service
and promote Gospel values,
offering compassion to all God’s people
though our mission
to evangelize, to catechize, and to teach.

Sisters in active ministry at GSC during the 2021-2022 school year (left to right):
S. Helen Thomas, IHM (principal),
S. Christine Lamb, IHM (administrative assistant)
and S. Teresa Cecelia Haug, IHM (fourth-grade teacher).

On November 10, 1845, Reverend Louis Florent Gillet, a Redemptorist missionary, welcomed three women, Mary Theresa Maxis,
who became Mother M. Theresa, Charlotte Ann Schaaf, (Sister M. Ann), and Therese Renauld, (Sister M. Celestine) to begin a community based on the spirit of St. Alphonsus Liguori. Father Gillet envisioned an educational apostolate conducted by
religious women who would give witness to prayerfulness, humility, simplicity, forgetfulness of self, and a deep love
and respect for each individual soul. Read more here: https://ihmimmaculata.org/about-us/our-foundation/.