IHM: Pastoral

Pastoral

IHMs engage in pastoral ministries in parishes, hospitals, pastoral counseling programs and a variety of social agencies. They are appointed and function in roles such as: parish administrators, directors Mary Downey, IHM of Christian services, parish nurses, and pastoral counselors, directors of religious education hospital and hospice chaplains. In those roles they share life, accompany, guide, counsel and console, as well as celebrate and rejoice with God's people as they live through sorrows and joys opportunities and crises of life.
Picture: Sr. Mary Downey ministering as a pastoral
associate in a local retirement community.

The transcendence and mystery of God in our lives are realities experienced in the midst of the everyday as well as in times of extreme happiness or acute sorrow. In mutual reflection support, joy and commitment in the faith is strengthened and renewed.

Picture: Sister Peg (Michael Francis) Devaney ministers to persons incarcerated.

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Other IHMs in Action:
Sister Marie (Robert Marie) Sweeney, IHM
Sister Laura (Laura Mary) Hardage, IHM
Sister Mary (Marie Thoma) Downey, IHM
Sister Peggy (Michael Francis) Devaney
Sister Julie Vieira, IHM