Welcoming and accompanying migrants
How are we OSP-IHM sisters, associates and friends responding to the plight of migrants from our own backyard?
News & Updates
We’re happy to share recent news about our Sisters in ministry. Check back for updates.
Ministry at the Border update December 2022: Serving the Haitian population
“Bondye beni yo! Bondye beni nou! (God bless them! God bless us!)”
IHM Leaders Visit the OSP-IHM Border Community
“We come together here in this moment of our OSP/IHM history to ask for the blessing of God upon our response to the refugee crisis at the Texas/Mexican border.”
Ministry at the Border update September 2022
It seems right, and even providential, that in following Theresa Maxis’s urging to “go where the need is” that we find ourselves face to face with our Haitian brothers and sisters.
Ministry at the Border core group
This core group of sisters will establish a community in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Ministry at the Border: An invitation from God
I believe that the plight of our brothers and sisters at the US-Mexico border is one of those invitations from God that IHMs would find difficult to ignore.
One thing I do to stay emotionally healthy is…
Answers from IHM Sisters and IHM Associates.
Welcome Sister Giovana Fuentes Bendivez, IHM
On November 10, 2020, our Sister Giovana Fuentes Bendivez made her first profession of vows as a Sister, Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Scranton, PA.
Welcome Sister Elvia Mata Ortega, IHM
We gather this day to celebrate what has been in Elvia’s heart for a long time — her incorporation into the IHM Congregation of Scranton!