IHM: Katherine Collard Professes Final Vows

News Release

Windsor native professes
final vows with IHM Sisters
May 6, 2008

On Sunday, May 4, Katherine Collard, IHM, professed final vows as a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The ceremony took place during the Eucharistic liturgy at the IHM Motherhouse Chapel. Family and friends from Michigan, Indiana and Ontario attended the celebration.

A native of Windsor, Ontario, Collard is a rector at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., as she works toward a Masters of Divinity. She holds a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Marygrove College in Detroit, and a master's degree in pastoral ministries from Assumption University in Windsor.

Collard has served in parish ministry and in the Theology Department of Central Catholic Junior/Senior High School in Lafayette, Ind.

Collard is a convert to Roman Catholicism. She began to explore the possibility of religious life a few years after her conversion, visiting several communities in search of the right place. She professed her first vows with the IHM Sisters in 2005.

Her parents, Gloria and John, live in Windsor, Ontario, and have two other daughters.

Read the Liturgy given by Carol Quigley, IHM