Ministry
	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 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. Sister Mary Downey, IHM, 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.   Sister Peggy (Michael Francis) Devaney, IHM, ministers to persons incarcerated. Other IHMs in Action: Sister Angela (Marie Benjamin) Hibbard, IHM Sister Anne Mamienski, IHM Sister Marie (Robert Marie) Sweeney, IHM Sister Laura (Laura Mary) Hardage, IHM Sister Mary (Marie Thoma) Downey, IHM Sister Peggy (Michael Francis) Devaney, IHM Sister Julie Vieira, IHM Sister Carrine Etheridge, IHM Sister Marie Clark, IHM Sister Beverly (Rosalita) Hindson, IHM Sister Kate (Kathleen Mary) O'Brien, IHM Sister Sharon (Mary Austin) Defever, IHM

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