The origins of the IHM Congregation can be traced back to a log cabin in Monroe, Michigan. It was there that Reverend Louis Florent Gillet, a Redemptorist missionary, having searched in vain for religious to teach the spiritually and educationally abandoned immigrants on the Michigan frontier, resolved to found a community of sisters of his own. In 1845, shortly after settling into the newly constructed St. Anthony Church, in Monroe, Father Gillet was joined by Sister Theresa Maxis. Thus, the humble beginnings of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary began to take root at the hands and hearts of these two founders, who were on fire with love of God and love of neighbor. 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.
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