We would like to share with you the great joy we experienced on August 16, 2011 the day of the consecration of the new church, St. Rocco, in Avondale, Pennsylvania- a church which the faithful Hispanic Catholic of south Chester County have been waiting and praying for thirty years...<more>

St. Paul’s Church in East Harlem had the honor to host a retreat day for the Junior Legion of Mary on July 2, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Eighty-five children and youth invited from throughout the Archdiocese attended the retreat that began with the praying of the Holy Rosary together in the main church. The children and youth were then divided into groups by age for the morning and afternoon sessions of formation talks. Fr. Claudio Stewart, IVE ... <more>

During the month of August our Religious Family led hundreds of youth on a 30 day journey throughout Portugal, France and Spain. The pilgrimage culminated in Madrid with Pope Benedict XVI for the 26th World Youth Day where together with thousands of other young pilgrims from around the world they came to "meet with Christ, who is eternally young, and [to] learn from him how to be bearers of the Gospel to other young people" (Blessed John Paul II, WYD Toronto, 2002).

For day by day coverage of our pilgrimage, see the IVE America site. For video coverage visit H2O News. Read the complete texts of the Holy Father's visit among the youth available on the Vatican site.

We give thanks to Our Lady and the many patron saints of this World Youth Day for the graces of these days of pilgrimage and encounter with Christ and His Church. Join us in praying for our young pilgrims that they may be the light of Christ in the New Millennium.

The official site of the World Youth Day 2011 Madrid currently features our contemplatives on the front page in their section "The Faces that Make WYD Possible" with an accompanying article (English / French / Spanish / Italian).

Join them in praying for the fruits of the World Youth Day and of our IVE youth pilgrimage leading to Madrid.

"Dear young people, today we stand before a culminating moment in the history of humanity, one of those stages of "fracture" in which it is possilbe to radically change the orientation of the life of the spirit, the existence of men... What is the new path the world needs? The world is a great engima and Jesus Christ is the only answer and solution."
Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela, Youth in the Third Millennium <more>

We were blessed to see the return of Tom and Jeanette Reinecker to our mission in Guyana for a second round of Natural Family Planning Workshops from March 22 to March 29.  Beginning with their trip last year, these Maryland lay missionaries are the first instructors ever to teach Catholic couples NFP in Guyana. <more>

We join the Universal Church in celebrating the beatification of Pope John Paul II, pilgrim of the world and a saint of our times. Through his continued intercession, we ask for all young people, for many holy vocations, for the needs of the Church, and amid the violence and uncertainty of these months we ask for the peace in the world that only Christ can give. <more>

Dr. Joseph A. Cucci D.C., C.E.O. and President of Mission Life International, writes about his visit to our City of Charity in San Rafael, Argentina <more>

In preparation for Christmas we took our youth group from the parish of Sts. Peter and Paul in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY on a trip to Manhattan just across the Brooklyn Bridge for a day of prayer and recreation. Washington D.C. <more>

"Benedictum Verbum Incarnatum, Principium et Finis, Alpha et Omega, Primum et Postremum"

With great joy and thanksgiving the Religious Family of the Institute of the Incarnate Word celebrated our central feast day, the Solemnity of the Annunication, in Washington D.C. <more>

On March 19, 2011 we celebrated the solemnity of St. Joseph, marking the 23rd anniversary of the founding of our institute in San Rafael, Argentina. There were celebrations throughout the Province.. <more>

In the March edtion of Columbia, the Kingths of Coumbus magazine, features one of our sisters, M.Mary Joy of Martys on the back cover as part of their monthly feature on priestly and religiuos vocations. We are grateful to the Knights for this opportunity to share the vocation story of a member of our community with their widespread readership and we hope to be included in their prayers for vocations. <more>

"Withdrawal from the world for the sake of leading a more intense life of prayer in solitude is nothing other than a very particular way of living and expressing the paschal mystery of Christ, which is death ordained toward resurrection." (Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns, 3)<more>

"If the Lord does not build the house, in vain do its builders labor..."

After nearly ten years of prayers and the support of so many benefactors, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Juniorate House of Studies has its own home. <more>

Our mission here began in February 2011.

Our sisters have been working at St. James since 2005, running the Oratory on Saturdays, teaching catechism, and assisting in the sacristy. Since 2009, one of our sisters has been the Director of Religious Education (DRE) at St. James. <more>

The announcement of the beatification of John Paul II scheduled for May 1st was finally made on January 14th. We have always had a great reverence and affection for Pope John Paul II since our beginnings in 1988 under his pontificate. So many of us were encouraged in our religious vocations and in our missionary zeal by his example and his closeness to young people everywhere.

Fr. Buela, our founder, has always called him the "spiritual father" of our Religious Family, carefully noting that the Institute of the Incarnate Word began on March 25, 1984, the same day that the pope consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in conjunction with all the bishops of the world.

Ecce quam bonum, et quam iucundum habitare fratres in unum. (Behold how good and how pleasant when brothers live as one.) (Psalm 133)

From January 25-28, 2011 our community held its Fourth Provincial Chapter of the Province of the Immaculate Conception. Currently our province includes over ten convents and one monastery in the United States, two convents in Canada, as well...<more>

On Monday January 25, 2011 our religious family along with hundreds of youth and young adults from many of the parishes within our Province participated in the 38th annual March for Life in Washington, DC.

Let this message take root in our hearts as we continue on our pilgrimage through life so that in choosing life we may live (Deuteronomy 30:19). <more>

Just before Christmas, we were finally able to cross the border into Canada and open the latest foundation of our Province. Beginning with two sisters, our community is working alongside the IVE priests in two parishes in the Diocese of Peterborough, northeast of Toronto. Our new convent chapel means that there is another tabernacle in the world, where Our Lord may be honored and adored.<more>

As 2011 begins we give thanks to the Lord for all the bountiful gifts and blessings He has bestowed upon us in the year 2010. May this look back on the past year be for us a sign of God's continued presence and infinite divine providence as well as an example of how to journey on with humble confidence.

May the Holy Family intercede for us and be our guide. <more>